Abstract The United States has long been perceived as a land of opportunity for immigrants.
Yet, both in the past and today, US natives have expressed concern that immigrants fail to …

Immigration is an increasingly important component of demographic change in the United
States. The significant role played by immigration in recent years sparked the development …

We provide new estimates of migrant flows into and out of America during the Age of Mass
Migration at the turn of the twentieth century. Our analysis is based on a novel data set of …

The full impact of immigration on American society is obscured in policy and academic
analyses that focus on the short-term problems of immigrant adjustment. With a longer-term …

Immigration is remaking the United States. In New York, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco,
and Chicago, the multiethnic society of tomorrow is already in place. Yet today's urban …

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 is an increasingly important component of demographic change in the United
States. Since the Great Depression, the size of the legal immigrant flow has increased at the …

Does the arrival of immigrants into a local labor market affect conditions (either wages or
probabilities of employment) faced by native workers, thereby creating incentives for the …

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 …

How did turn-of-the-20th-century immigrants perform in the American economy relative to
native-born Americans? This article reassesses this question using data from the 1900 and …