What is the effect of immigration on native labor-market outcomes? An extensive literature identifies the differential … impact of immigration on natives employed in jobs that are more exposed to immigrant labor (supply exposure). But immigrants … exposures to immigration. Theoretically, we formalize both measures of exposure and solve for their effects on native wages …

Our paper describes crime effects attributable to the Mariel Boatlift, the 1980 Cuban refugee crisis that increased …-intervention crime patterns, we find strong evidence the phenomenon comparatively increased property crime and murder rates; we also … document weaker but suggestive relative growth in per capita violent crime linked with the influx of Cubans. Compositional …

immigration due to its apparently unbearable social and political costs. However these costs are never measured and made … comparable across countries. In this paper we first discuss theoretically how tradable immigration quotas (TIQs) can reveal … countries and other immigration targets. Both applications are seen as possible precursors to a full implementation of a TIQs …

inefficient as it fails to internalize such externality. In addition, host countries quite often restrict immigration due to its … this paper we first discuss theoretically how tradable immigration quotas (TIQs) can reveal countries' comparative …

This paper revisits Fernández-Huertas Moraga and Rapoport’s (2014) proposal of tradable immigration quotas [Journal of …-based regulation tends to work well. Despite this caveat, we provide new results in favor of tradable immigration quotas …