How readily do potential migrants respond to increased returns to migration? Even if origin areas become less … measures and analysis of more migrant-origin countries. Hurricanes increase U.S. immigration, with the effect increasing in the … size of prior migrant stocks. Large migrant networks reduce fixed costs by facilitating legal immigration from hurricane …

In this chapter, we describe long-run trends in global merchandise trade and immigration from 1870 to 2010. We revisit … interwar period, and then rebounded (but with much more pronounced growth in trade than in immigration). More substantively, we … differences framework in combination with a dramatic change in US immigration policy, we find evidence that immigration and trade …

baseline views that respondents have of immigrants, simply making them think about immigration before asking questions about …, suggesting that when it comes to immigration, salience and narratives shape people's views more deeply than hard facts …

Past studies of the empirical relationship between immigration and crime during the first major wave of immigration …

skill composition of migrants while in a restricted mobility regime, the impact will be the opposite, as voters will prefer … selective migration policies, favoring skilled migrants who tend to be net contributors to the fiscal system. We utilize the …

Using a state panel based on census data from 1940-2010, I examine the impact of immigration on the high school …