This paper surveys recent empirical studies on the economic impacts of immigration. The
survey first examines the magnitude of immigration as an economic phenomenon in various …

This article reviews recent research regarding high-skilled migration. We adopt a data-
driven perspective, bringing together and describing several ongoing research streams that …

In this survey, we argue that the economic analysis of fertility has entered a new era. First-
generation models of fertility choice were designed to account for two empirical regularities …

We argue theoretically and document empirically that aging leads to greater (industrial)
automation, because it creates a shortage of middle-aged workers specializing in manual …

Many migrations are temporary—a fact that has often been ignored in the economic
literature on migration. Such omission may be serious in that expected migration …

Sjaastad (1962) viewed migration in the same way as education: as an investment in the
human agent. Migration and education are decisions that are indeed intertwined in many …

The paper formulates hypotheses and reports on individual attitudes towards immigration
based on data for 24 countries on socioeconomic position, sociodemographic …

In the wake of September 11, 2001, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was
created to prevent terrorist attacks in the US. This led to dramatic increases in immigration …

This paper analyzes welfare-state determinants of individual attitudes toward immigrants—
within and across countries—and their interaction with labor market drivers of preferences …

MOST STUDIES OF the economic impact of immigration are motivated by the desire to
understand how immigrants affect various dimensions of economic status in the population …