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 …

Strangers No More is the first book to compare immigrant integration across key Western
countries. Focusing on low-status newcomers and their children, it examines how they are …

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 …

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 …

I use longitudinal earnings data from Social Security records to study the effect of selective
emigration on the measured progress of immigrants to the United States. The immigrant …

The least-skilled workforce in the United States is disproportionally employed in the
provision of time-intensive services that can be thought of as market substitutes for home …

What are the welfare effects of immigration on low-skilled and high-skilled natives? To
address this question, we develop a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types …

We analyze the impact of the US skill‐biased immigration influx that took place between
2000 and 2009 within a search and matching model that allows for skill heterogeneity …

A controversial issue in the US is how to reduce the number of illegal immigrants and what
effect this would have on the US economy. To answer this question we set up a two-country …

The perception that immigration adversely affects crime rates led to legislation in the 1990s
that particularly increased punishment of criminal aliens. In fact, immigrants have much …