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 …

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

From the 1970s to the early 2000s, the United States experienced an epochal wave of low-skilled immigration. Since the …-skilled, foreign-born workers has remained stable. We examine how the scale and composition of low-skilled immigration in the United … contributed to the recent immigration slowdown. Because major source countries for U.S. immigration are now seeing and will …

changes in immigration policy. I quantitatively illustrate these insights by evaluating two policies: an expansion of and the …

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 …

The wage impact of immigration depends crucially on the elasticity of substitution between similarly skilled immigrants …

: immigration stimulated job creation, and the complexity of jobs offered to new native hires was higher relative to the complexity …