This paper surveys available empirical evidence on labour market effects of immigration.
Many different approaches have been used already to try to find out whether immigration …

Does the academic literature on US immigration adequately capture the experiences of
immigrants outside their traditional areas of concentration? This article reviews the three …

The United States is an immigrant nation—nowhere is the truth of this statement more
evident than in its major cities. Immigrants and their children comprise nearly three-fifths of …

New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles have long been shaped by immigration. These
gateway cities have traditionally been assumed to be the major flashpoints in American …

Migration across national borders provokes many spirited political and policy debates.
Although these debates are often most contentious when they deal with lower-skilled …

One of the aims of attracting FDI to the UK through incentives is to improve regional
development. Having firms locate in depressed regions, or regions with relatively low …

This paper provides a checklist and discussion of the benefits and cost of highly skilled
migrants for both sending and receiving countries. When possible it tries to analyse or …

This chapter focuses on the implications of economically self‐interested behavior by voters
and lobbyists, rather than important issues of irredentism, demagoguery, and security. It also …

The US workforce heavily depends on immigrants. To address the role and position of non-
White immigrant groups in the United States, the authors examine employment and industry …

A rise in neo-isolationism in the United States has given encouragement to a new fiscal
politics of immigration. Growth in the refugee population helps to explain some of the rising …