possibility that without tight restrictions on migration, migrants from poor countries could transmit low productivity ("A" or … Total Factor Productivity) to rich countries – offsetting efficiency gains from the spatial reallocation of labor from low … to high-productivity places. We provide a novel assessment, proposing a simple model of dynamically efficient migration …

- experimental evidence on the labor market effects of immigration enforcement policies on citizens across the occupational skill …This paper examines the effects of reducing the supply of low-skilled immigrant workers on the labor market outcomes of …-based immigration enforcement policy, combined with data over 2005-2014 from the American Community Survey to estimate a difference …

the impact of the inflow of Ukrainians that resulted from Russia's aggression in 2014 on local migration patterns in …Russia's attacks against Ukraine have triggered massive and unexpected migration movements. In this paper, I examine … internal and international out-migration of the Polish population. I provide supportive evidence that the decrease in out-migration …

prior estimates by including ripple effects beyond the wages earned or taxes paid directly by migrants. The sharp reduction …International migrants who seek protection also participate in the economy. Thus the policy of the United States to … to migrants seeking protection, beyond humanitarian policy concerns, carry substantial economic costs. …

problem is cross-country differences in the productivity of labor. If workers are much more productive in one country than in … where they can be more productive. Yet immigration laws severely constrain such movement. …

This paper develops and estimates a joint hazard-longitudinal (JHL) model of the timing of migration and labor market … endogenous age of entry in estimating the returns to years since migration by allowing cross-equation correlations of random … attrition and missing wages are also addressed. Using German household panel surveys from 1984 to 2014 and home country …

increase in labour migration to the construction sector. Licensing demands, however, protected some workers from immigrant … research on immigration, political behaviour and collective action. …

randomized lottery. We evaluate the marginal impact of the quota on firms entering the 2021 H-2B visa lottery using a novel … pre-registered subsamples. The results imply very low substitutability of native for foreign labor in the policy …-relevant occupations. Forensic analysis suggests similarly low substitutability of black-market labor. …