The share of US residents who were born in Latin America and the Caribbean plateaued
recently, after a half century of rapid growth. Our review of the evidence on the US …

How does the US labor market absorb low-skilled immigration? In the short run, high-
immigration locations see their low-skilled labor force increase, native low-skilled wages …

What are the economic impacts of a border wall between the United States and Mexico? We
use detailed data on bilateral ows of primarily unauthorized Mexican workers to the United …

We document that international migrants concentrate more in expensive cities—the more so,
the lower the prices in their origin countries are—and consume less locally than comparable …

There is reason to suspect that return migrants can reduce social violence in migrant-prone
regions of the world. Taking into account that recent research shows positive effects of return …

This paper investigates the magnitude of employment and earnings losses in Mexico
induced by the Great Recession. Using longitudinal social security data and exploiting …

Mexican migration to the United States—one of the largest flows in human history—inverted
in the late 2000s, and during the next decade more Mexicans returned home than those who …

Immigrants tend to buy products from their home countries. As a result, the more immigrants
of a given ethnicity a country has, the more it will tend to import from those immigrants' …

This paper estimates the impact of the US-Mexico border fence on US-Mexico migration by
exploiting variation in the timing and location of US government investment in fence …

This research highlights a neglected paradox of migration policies: whereas narratives on
migrants as a security threat in their countries of destination find little support in empirical …