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With 11.9 million undocumented residents in the United States and illegal entrants accounting for nearly half of the low

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Regulating Low-Skilled Immigration in the United States : Income Tells Only a Small Part of the Story
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Segal analyzes Asian immigration to the U.S., including immigrants' reasons for leaving their countries, their attr

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This volume, the first in a new series by the National Bureau of Economic Research that compares labor markets in differ

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After decades of urban crisis, American cities and suburbs have revived, thanks largely to immigration. This is the firs

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What is the story behind the paradoxical survival of small and weak states in a world of great powers and crude power po

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A powerful analysis of how regulation of the movement of enslaved and free black people produced a national immigration

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On both sides of the Atlantic, restrictive immigration policies have been framed as security imperatives since the 1990s

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