This article reviews the recent evidence on US immigration, focusing on two key
questions:(1) Does immigration reduce the labour market opportunities of less skilled …

The economic impact of immigration depends both on how immigrants perform in the United
States when they first enter the country, as well as on their long-run economic prospects …

Immigration to the United States during the 1970's and 1980's was greater than in any
decade since the 1920's. Simultaneously, the proportion of immigrants arriving from Europe …

During the 1970s, immigration to the United States was higher than in any decade since the
1920s, raising the number of immigrants in the US labor market by 45 percent. The flow of …

Immigration can heavily influence the way in which a country's labor force evolves over time.
Recent American experience bears this out. The proportion of immigrants in the adult …

The early work of Gilles Grenier, and Walter McManus, William Gould, and Finis Welch
concluded that US immigrants who are proficient in the English language have higher …

We compare two approaches to analyzing the effects of immigration on the labor market and
find that the estimated effect of immigration on US native labor outcomes depends critically …

The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration finds that the long-term impact of
immigration on the wages and employment of native-born workers overall is very small, and …

This paper analyzes trends in the skills of immigrants to the United States in the post-World
War II period. Changes in the supply, demand, and institutional factors determining …

Since the 1960s, the United States has undergone a surge in immigration. The share of the
US population that is foreign born surpassed 10% in 2000, with new immigrants accounting …