(elasticity +0.16) with no decrease or an increase in U.S. employment (elasticity +0.10, statistically imprecise) across several …

We review the growing literature on the political economy of immigration. First, we discuss the effects of immigration … among natives. Next, we unpack the channels behind the political effects of immigration, distinguishing between economic and …

whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational …: immigration stimulated job creation, and the complexity of jobs offered to new native hires was higher relative to the complexity …

passes validity tests and has reasonably strong power. Second, we provide estimates of the impact of immigration on the … employment-population ratio of natives to test for crowding out at the national level. Third, we analyze occupational upgrading … of natives in response to immigrants. Using these estimates, we calculate that immigration, thanks to native …

) the size of the human capital transfer resulting from antebellum immigration; and (3) the causes of the difficulty …

In the 1980s, the wages and employment rates of less-skilled Americans fell relative to those of more-skilled workers … imports in the U.S. economy to these trends. Our empirical evidence indicates that both trade and immigration augmented the … immigration increased the effective supply of high school dropouts by 28 percent for men and 31 percent for women. We estimate …

We examine the relationship between immigration and attitudes toward redistribution using a newly assembled data set of …