To spur entrepreneurship and economic growth, an increasing number of countries have introduced immigration policies … this immigration policy increased the likelihood that U.S.-based immigrants have a start-up in Canada by 69%. Our results … communities in the origin location. Overall, our study unveils the importance of immigration policies in determining founding …

The U.S. population is aging. We examine whether immigration causally affects the likelihood that the U.S.-born elderly … live in institutional settings. Using a shift-share instrument to identify exogenous variation in immigration, we find that … percent) less likely to be living in an institution than would have been the case if immigration had remained at 1980 levels …

passes validity tests and has reasonably strong power. Second, we provide estimates of the impact of immigration on the … of natives in response to immigrants. Using these estimates, we calculate that immigration, thanks to native …

migrants. In this article, we first summarize recent findings characterizing migrants' long-term economic assimilation and … mobility in Argentina and immigration contributed positively to the process of economic development. We then turn our focus to … the selection patterns of Italian migrants to Argentina--the largest migratory group to this destination. Our analysis of …