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

Skilled immigration restrictions may have secondary consequences that have been largely overlooked in the immigration … comprehensive data on US multinational firm activity, I find that restrictions on H-1B immigration caused foreign affiliate …

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 …

-reaching immigration enforcement program, affected the demand for safety net programs in the United States. We estimate the spillover …

One of the economic benefits of immigration is that the diversity of the population is enhanced. Diversity, it is … diversity mean? Do current immigration policies enhance diversity? To the extent that there are gains from diversity, they come … cannot be the justification of U.S. immigration policy. Indeed, current immigration policy fails to promote diversity …

Natives benefit from immigration mainly because of production complementarities between immigrant workers and other … productive inputs. The available evidence suggests that the economic benefits from immigration for the United States are small … considerably if the United States pursued an immigration policy which attracted a more skilled immigrant flow …