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 …

Whether immigrants advance in labor markets relative to natives is a fundamental question in immigration economics. It … is difficult to answer this question for the Age of Mass Migration, when US immigration was at its peak. New datasets of …

We study the effects of European immigration to the United States during the Age of Mass Migration (1850-1920) on … economic prosperity today. We exploit variation in the extent of immigration across counties arising from the interaction of … locations with more historical immigration today have higher incomes, less poverty, less unemployment, higher rates of …

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

The perception that immigration adversely affects crime rates led to legislation in the 1990s that particularly …

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 …