This paper estimates the effects of immigration on wages of native workers at the national U.S. level. Following Borjas … account for the short run and long run adjustment of capital in response to immigration. Using our estimates and Census data … we find that immigration (1990-2006) had small negative effects in the short run on native workers with no high school …

We develop a dynamic politico-economic theory of welfare state and immigration policies, featuring three groups of …

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 … are misplaced; immigration has had a positive average wage effect on native workers. Some concerns should be focused on …

historical studies and the recent literature on the impacts" of immigration is the propensity of the current literature to … direct" competition. Economic historians writing about the earlier period of high immigration went" beyond the first …-round effects. Taking a long-run perspective, they identified many aspects of" the mass immigration that were beneficial from the …

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