Using research designs patterned after randomized experiments, many recent economic
studies examine outcome measures for treatment groups and comparison groups that are …

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 …

This paper analyzes the effects of weather anomalies on migration in sub-Saharan Africa.
We present a theoretical model that demonstrates how weather anomalies induce rural …

We apply the synthetic control method to reexamine the labor market effects of the Mariel
Boatlift, first studied by David Card (1990). This method improves on previous studies by …

Recent studies of individual attitudes toward immigration emphasize concerns about labor-
market competition as a potent source of anti-immigrant sentiment, in particular among less …

The study of labor flows across labor markets is a central ingredient in any discussion of
labor market equilibrium. These labor flows help markets reach a more efficient allocation of …

Most labor economics textbooks pay little attention to actual labor markets, taking as
reference a perfectly competitive market in which losing a job is not a big deal. The …

This article brings a new perspective to the analysis of the wage effects of the Mariel boatlift
crisis, in which an estimated 125,000 Cuban refugees migrated to Florida between April and …

Some research presumes that, when rational parties bargain, nothing is left on the table, so
that social outcomes are efficient and leave countries on the frontiers of their aggregate …

NATIONAL BORDERS SEEM increasingly porous. Nearly 215 million persons now live in a
country where they were not born, so immigrants account for about 3 percent of the world's …