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 …

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 …

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 …

During the Age of Mass Migration (1850–1913), the United States maintained an open
border, absorbing 30 million European immigrants. Prior cross-sectional work finds that …

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 …

In this paper we examine the process of out-migration and investigate whether cross-
sectional earnings assimilation results suffer from selection bias due to out-migration. Our 14 …

Page 1 EE International Migration and Economic Development Lessons from Low-Income
Countries K K EGDI EXPERT GROUP ON DEVELOPMENT ISSUES Robert EB Lucas Page …

This paper examines the evolution of immigrant earnings in the United States between 1970
and 2010. There are cohort effects not only in wage levels, with more recent cohorts having …

The Handbook of the Economics of Education describes the research frontier in key topical
areas and sets the agenda for further work. Modern analysis in the economics of education …

As in the US and Canada, migration is a controversial issue in Europe. This paper explores
the possibility that immigration policy may affect the labor market assimilation of immigrants …