The paper reviews 59 empirical studies that estimated the economic impact of forced
displacement on host communities. A review of the empirical models used by these studies …

The literature on the impact of immigration on the labor market is highly controversial. The
aim of this paper is to review the existing literature and draw some general conclusions on …

We study inference in shift-share regression designs, such as when a regional outcome is
regressed on a weighted average of sectoral shocks, using regional sector shares as …

Does immigration change support for redistribution? We design and conduct large-scale
surveys and experiments in six countries to investigate how people perceive immigrants and …

ABSTRACT A large literature exploits geographic variation in the concentration of
immigrants to identify their impact on a variety of outcomes. To address the endogeneity of …

Forced migration as a consequence of wars, civil conflicts, or natural disasters may have
consequences different from those of voluntary migration. Recent work has highlighted the …

In this article, I jointly investigate the political and the economic effects of immigration, and
study the causes of anti-immigrant sentiments. I exploit exogenous variation in European …

We review the growing literature on the political economy of immigration. First, we discuss
the effects of immigration on a wide range of political and social outcomes. The existing …

We study a reform that granted European cross-border workers free access to the Swiss
labor market and had a stronger effect on regions close to the border. The greater …

We study the long-run effects of forced migration on investment in education. After World
War II, millions of Poles were forcibly uprooted from the Kresy territories of eastern Poland …