Immigration

This paper uses an epidemiological model to investigate how heterogeneously distributed immigrants affected the economic institutions of American states over the 1980–2010 period under the assumption that institutions are highly responsive to changes in the immigrant population. We find that state economic institutions do not change much in response to immigrants.

We find that larger immigrant shares of the population produce large reductions in the growth of real per capita tax revenue and outlays in the short run that moderate to smaller longer-term growth declines in both.

The travel restrictions had no effect on the number of COVID-19 cases in the United States.

Whether one focuses on criminal convictions, arrests, or the number of individuals convicted or arrested, the results are the same - illegal immigrants have a lower crime rate than native-born Americans in Texas.

Using the Synthetic Control Method, this study estimates a significant and long-lasting positive effect on Jordanian economic institutions from the surge of refugees from the First Gulf War.

nder multiple empirical specifications, we find no evidence to suggest that 287(g) programs had an effect on crime rates in North Carolina counties following their implementation. These results hold for simple measures of program adoption and program intensity. Our findings suggest that 287(g) in North Carolina counties did not meet its intended objective of improving public safety by facilitating the removal of violent offenders.

This paper introduces an immigration reform idea with far‐reaching potential in the form of an immigration tariff: the sale of permanent conditional work and residency visas that we call gold cards at a price set by Congress.

We find no relationship between immigration and terrorism, whether measured by the number of attacks or victims, in destination countries.

Based on their responses to the General Social Survey, we found that immigrants and their children have levels of patriotism that are about the same as those of native-born Americans or that exceed them.

From 1995 to 2017, illegal immigrants initially faced a hefty wage penalty of about 11.3 percent relative to legal immigrants. That wage gap can be mostly explained by their lack of legal work status. Although immigrant wages generally converge with those of native‐born Americans, legalizing illegal immigrants will hasten overall wage convergence.