This article reviews the recent evidence on US immigration, focusing on two key
questions:(1) Does immigration reduce the labour market opportunities of less skilled …

▪ Abstract Median income in the United States has fallen and the distribution of income has
grown markedly more unequal over the past three decades, reversing a general pattern of …

Does immigration change support for redistribution? We design and conduct large-scale
surveys and experiments in six countries to investigate how people perceive immigrants and …

This paper shows that racial composition shocks during the Great Migration (1940–1970)
reduced the gains from growing up in the northern United States for Black families and can …

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 …

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 …

This paper analyzes how labor market factors have shaped early returns on big data
investment using a new data source—the LinkedIn skills database. The data source enables …

Past research has emphasized two critical economic concerns that appear to generate anti-
immigrant sentiment among native citizens: concerns about labor market competition and …

We examine the impact of Chinese import competition on broad measures of technical
change—patenting, IT, and TFP—using new panel data across twelve European countries …

Ethnic diversity is increasing in most advanced countries, driven mostly by sharp increases
in immigration. In the long run immigration and diversity are likely to have important cultural …