Over 1 billion people currently live in slums, with the number of slum dwellers only expected
to grow in the coming decades. The vast majority of slums are located in and around urban …

The study of labor flows across labor markets is a central ingredient in any discussion of
labor market equilibrium. These labor flows help markets reach a more efficient allocation of …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Using research designs patterned after randomized experiments, many recent economic
studies examine outcome measures for treatment groups and comparison groups that are …

The early work of Gilles Grenier, and Walter McManus, William Gould, and Finis Welch
concluded that US immigrants who are proficient in the English language have higher …