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 …

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 …

The winners of the Nobel Prize show how economics, when done right, can help us solve
the thorniest social and political problems of our day. Figuring out how to deal with today's …

We classify the empirical literature on the wage impact of immigration into three groups,
where studies in the first two groups estimate different relative effects, and studies in the third …

By exploiting a commuting policy that led to a sharp and unexpected inflow of Czech
workers to areas along the German-Czech border, we examine the impact of an exogenous …

Abstract The Syrian Conflict generated forced immigration from northern Syria to
southeastern Turkey. Arrival of refugees resembles a natural experiment, which offers good …

Civil conflict in Syria, started in March 2011, led to a massive wave of forced immigration
from Northern Syria to the Southeastern regions of Turkey, which later had serious …

Studies have reached conflicting conclusions regarding the labor market effects of
exogenous refugee waves such as the Mariel Boatlift in Miami. The authors show that …

This essay discusses the effect of technical change on wage inequality. I argue that the
behavior of wages and returns to schooling indicates that technical change has been skill …

Immigration is not evenly balanced across groups of workers who have the same education
but differ in their work experience, and the nature of the supply imbalance changes over …