Immigration has become a central driver of U.S. labor force growth. We document new empirical findings that shed light on the relationships between immigration, labor shortages, wage growth, and job openings during the high-immigration period of 2021-2024. The textbook search-and-matching model...

This paper estimates the causal impact of Brexit on migrant employment in the United Kingdom using a synthetic difference-in-differences (SDID) framework. We construct a counterfactual trajectory for the UK based on a weighted combination of comparable European economies and compare...

The educational distribution of U.S. immigrants shifted significantly to the right in recent decades as the share without a high school diploma fell and the share with a bachelor's degrees rose. This improvement coincided with a shift in immigrants' origins toward Asia and rising global...

Seit dem Berichtsjahr 2009 liefert Deutschland jährlich Statistiken zu Immigration und Emigration entsprechend der europäischen Definition des üblichen Aufenthaltsortes an die Europäische Union. Da diese Definition vom nationalen Konzept abweicht, wendet die amtliche Statistik zur Erfüllung...

his paper investigates how immigration affects consumer prices. Using scanner data and instrumenting county-level immigration with historical ancestry patterns, we find that an inflow of 10,000 immigrants lowers four-year price growth by 0.58 percentage points. Leveraging variation in firm...

Growing global migration flows highlight the importance of understanding their economic impact. While many studies have explored how immigration affects host countries’ macroeconomic indicators, the results are mixed. In this work, we develop a meta-analysis to investigate the effect of...

This paper examines how proposed U.S. restrictions on international students would affect the nation's STEM workforce and long-run economic growth. Focusing on the most common pipeline from U.S. universities to the labor market, we show that international education is the principal mechanism by...