Recent decades have seen a rise in the use of physics methods to study different societal
phenomena. This development has been due to physicists venturing outside of their …

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 …

The introduction offers an overview to migration studies, comparing and contrasting different
disciplinary approaches—what they have in common and where they differ. The chapter …

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 …

Asian Americans are often stereotyped as the “model minority.” Their sizeable presence at
elite universities and high household incomes have helped construct the narrative of Asian …

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 …

We investigate the fiscal impact of immigration on the UK economy, with a focus on the
period since 1995. Our findings indicate that, when considering the resident immigrant …

It is useful today to defi ne demography in terms of what demographers actually do.
Following this approach, we would say the fi eld consists of multi-and inter-disciplinary …

This paper analyzes the way in which the earnings of the immigrant population may be
expected to differ from the earnings of the native population because of the endogeneity of …

This revised and updated fifth edition of Immigrant America: A Portrait provides a
comprehensive and current overview of immigration to the United States, including its …