This chapter examines the causes and consequences of black-white residential segregation in the United States …. Segregation can arise through black self-segregation, collective action to exclude blacks from white neighborhoods, or individual … counterparts in more integrated areas. This difference appears to reflect the causal effect of segregation on economic outcomes …

, assimilation of immigrants into US economy and society, and the effect of immigration on the labor market …

United States maintained open borders. Using a novel dataset of Norway-to-US migrants, we estimate the return to migration … while accounting for migrant selection across households by comparing migrants with their brothers who stayed in Norway. We … also compare the fathers of migrants and non-migrants by wealth and occupation, and examine migrants' assimilation in the …

In this paper, we simulate the long-run effects of migrant flows on wages of high-skilled and low-skilled non-migrants … of emigration as well as immigration. We focus on Europe and compare the outcomes for large Western European countries … inequality because of emigration. Whereas, contrary to the popular belief, immigration had nearly equal but opposite effects …

similar historically and today despite dramatic shifts in sending countries and US immigration policy. In the past, this …

Migration (1850-1913). Return migrants were somewhat negatively selected from the migrant pool: Norwegian immigrants who … moving to the US. Upon returning to Norway, return migrants held higher-paid occupations than Norwegians who never moved … despite being negatively selected, return migrants were able to accumulate savings and improve their economic circumstances …