The specificity principle in acculturation science asserts that specific setting conditions of
specific people at specific times moderate specific domains in acculturation by specific …

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 documents a significant association between the exposure of an individual or
area to the UK government's austerity-induced welfare reforms begun in 2010, and the …

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 …

Abstract On June 23, 2016, the United Kingdom held a referendum on its membership in the
European Union. Although most of Britain's establishment backed remaining in the EU, 52 …

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 …

Immigration has been a steady force acting on population and employment within countries
throughout human history. Focusing on the last four decades, we show that the mix of …

Using longitudinal data on the universe of workers in Denmark during the period 1991–
2008, we track the labor market outcomes of low-skilled natives in response to an …

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 …