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“Biased Screening and Discrimination in the Labor Market” (with Matthew S. Goldberg), American Economic Review, December 1978, pp. 918-922.
"Wage Determination in the Federal Government: The Role of Constituents and Bureaucrats,” Journal of Political Economy, December 1980, pp. 1110-1147.
“Job Mobility and Earnings over the Life Cycle,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, April 1981, pp. 365-376.
“The Earnings of Male Hispanic Immigrants in the United States,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, April 1982, pp. 343-353.
“The Measurement of Race and Gender Wage Differentials: Evidence from the Federal Sector,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, October 1983, pp. 79-91.
“Assimilation, Changes in Cohort Quality, and the Earnings of Immigrants,” Journal of Labor Economics, October 1985, pp. 463-489.
"The Sensitivity of Labor Demand Functions to Choice of Dependent Variable," Review of Economics and Statistics, February 1986, pp. 58-66.
“Immigrants, Minorities, and Labor Market Competition," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, April 1987, pp. 382-392.
“Self-Selection and the Earnings of Immigrants,” American Economic Review, September 1987, pp. 531-553. Reprinted in Labor Economics, Volume 4, edited by Orley C. Ashenfelter and Kevin F. Hallock, Edward Elgar Publishing, 1995, pp. 351-373; reprinted in Labor Economics: Worth Series in Outstanding Contributions, edited by Orley Ashenfelter, Worth Publishers, 1999, pp. 305-335.
“Immigrant and Emigrant Earnings: A Longitudinal Study,” Economic Inquiry, January 1989, pp. 21-37.
“Consumer Discrimination and Self-Employment” (with Stephen G. Bronars), Journal of Political Economy, June 1989, pp. 581-605.
“Immigrant Participation in the Welfare System” (with Stephen J. Trejo), Industrial and Labor Relations Review, January 1991, pp. 195-211.
“Immigration and the Family" (with Stephen G. Bronars), Journal of Labor Economics, April 1991, pp. 123-148.
“Ethnic Capital and Intergenerational Mobility,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 1992, pp. 123-150.
“Assimilation and the Earnings of Young Internal Migrants," (with Stephen G. Bronars and Stephen J. Trejo), Review of Economics and Statistics, February 1992, pp. 170-175.
“The Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants,” Journal of Labor Economics, January 1993, pp. 113-135.
“Time-Series Evidence on the Sources of Trends in Wage Inequality” (with Valerie A. Ramey), American Economic Review, May 1994, pp. 10-16.
"Long-Run Convergence of Ethnic Skill Differentials: The Children and Grandchildren of the Great Migration," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, July 1994, pp. 553-573. Click here for updated results.
"A Two-Stage Estimator for Probit Models with Structural Group Effects" (with Glenn T. Sueyoshi), Journal of Econometrics, September/October 1994, pp. 165-182.
“The Economics of Immigration,” Journal of Economic Literature, December 1994, pp. 1667-1717.
“The Internationalization of the U.S. Labor Market,” Federal Reserve Bank of New York Economic Policy Review, January 1995, pp. 3-8.
“Assimilation and Changes in Cohort Quality Revisited: What Happened to Immigration Earnings in the 1980s?” Journal of Labor Economics, April 1995, pp. 201-245.
"The Economic Benefits from Immigration," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 1995, pp. 3-22.
“Ethnicity, Neighborhoods, and Human-Capital Externalities,” American Economic Review, June 1995, pp. 365-390.
“Foreign Competition, Market Power, and Wage Inequality” (with Valerie A. Ramey), Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 1995, pp. 1075-1110.
“Who Leaves? The Outmigration of the Foreign-Born," (with Bernt Bratsberg), Review of Economics and Statistics, February 1996, pp. 165-176.
“Searching for the Effect of Immigration on the Labor Market” (with Richard B. Freeman and Lawrence F. Katz), American Economic Review, May 1996, pp. 246-251.
“The New Economics of Immigration,” The Atlantic Monthly, November 1996, pp. 72-80. Translated, extracted, and reprinted as “Adapter l’ouverture des frontières à la conjocture,” Le Monde, December 3, 1996. Reprinted in: Robert K. Miller, editor, The Informed Argument, Harcourt Brace, 1997, pp. 230-240; Don Cole, editor, Annual Editions: Microeconomics 98/99, Dushkin-McGraw Hill, pp. 138-143; Don Cole, editor, Annual Editions: Microeconomics 00/01, Dushkin-McGraw-Hill, pp. 108-113.
“How Much Do Immigration and Trade Affect Labor Market Outcomes?” (with Richard B. Freeman and Lawrence F. Katz), Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1997, pp. 1-67.
"To Ghetto or Not to Ghetto? Ethnicity and Residential Segregation," Journal of Urban Economics, September 1998, pp. 228-253.
"Immigration and Welfare Magnets," Journal of Labor Economics, October 1999, pp. 607-637.
"The Economic Analysis of Immigration," in Handbook of Labor Economics, Volume 3A, edited by Orley Ashenfelter and David Card, North-Holland, 1999, pp. 1697-1760.
"The Economic Progress of Immigrants," in Issues in the Economics of Immigration, edited by George J. Borjas, University of Chicago Press, 2000, pp. 15-49.
“Foreign-Born Teaching Assistants and the Academic Performance of Undergraduates,” American Economic Review, May 2000, pp. 355-359. (Survey Instrument)
“Dollarization and the Mexican Labor Market” (with Eric O’N. Fisher), Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, May 2001, pp. 626-647.
"Does Immigration Grease the Wheels of the Labor Market?" Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2001, pp. 69-119.
"Long-Run Convergence of Ethnic Skill Differentials, Revisited" Demography, August 2001, pp. 357-361.
“An Evaluation of the Foreign Student Program," Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, June 2002.
"Welfare Reform and Immigrant Participation in Welfare Programs," International Migration Review, Winter 2002, pp. 1093-1123.
"Homeownership in the Immigrant Population," Journal of Urban Economics, November 2002, pp. 448-476.
"The Wage Structure and the Sorting of Workers into the Public Sector," in For the People: Can We Fix Public Service?, edited by John D. Donahue and Joseph S. Nye, Brookings Institution Press, pp. 29-54..
"Welfare Reform, Labor Supply, and Health Insurance in the Immigrant Population," Journal of Health Economics, November 2003, pp. 933-958..
"The Labor Demand Curve is Downward Sloping: Reexamining the Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market," Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 2003, pp. 1335-1374.
"Food Insecurity and Public Assistance," Journal of Public Economics, July 2004, pp. 1421-1443.
“Do Foreign Students Crowd Out Native Students from Graduate Programs,” in Science and the University, edited by Ronald G. Ehrenberg and Paula E. Stephan, University of Wisconsin Press, 2007.
"Increasing the Supply of Labor Through Immigration: Measuring the Impact on Native-Born Workers," Center for Immigration Studies, May 2004.
"The Labor Market Impact of High Skill Immigration," American Economic Review, May 2005.
"Making it in America: Social Mobility in the Immigrant Population," The Future of Children, 2006.
"The Evolution of the Mexican-Born Workforce in the United States" (with Lawrence F. Katz), in Mexican Immigration to the United States, edited by George J. Borjas, University of Chicago Press, 2007.
"Cross-Country Variation in the Impact of International Migration: Canada, Mexico, and the United States" (with Abdurrahman Aydemir), Journal of the European Economic Association, June 2007, 663-708.
"Labor Outflows and Labor Inflows in Puerto Rico," Journal of Human Capital, forthcoming, 2008.
“The U.S. Takes the Wrong Immigrants.” Editorial in The Wall Street Journal, April 5, 1990.
“Immigrants--Not What They Used To Be.” Editorial in The Wall Street Journal, November 8, 1990.
“Know the Flow: Nine Immigration Myths,” National Review, April 17, 1995, pp. 44-50. Reprinted in Nicholas Capaldi, editor, Immigration: Debating the Issues. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 1997, pp. 188-196.
“The Welfare Magnet,” National Review, March 11, 1996, pp. 48-50. Reprinted in Tamara L. Roleff, editor, Immigration: Opposing Viewpoints. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 1998, pp. 97-102.
“Punish Employers, Not Children,” Editorial in The New York Times, July 11, 1996.
“Immigration & Welfare: Solving the Welfare Problem Will Solve the Welfare Problem—Not the Immigration Problem,” National Review, June 16, 1997, pp. 34-38.
“Findings We Never Found” (with Richard B. Freeman), Editorial in The New York Times, December 10, 1997.
Review of Strangers among Us: How Latino Immigration is Transforming America, by Roberto Suro, National Review, May 18, 1998, pp. 54-55.
“Immigration: The Issue-in-Waiting,” Editorial in The New York Times, April 2, 1999.
“Let Elián Remain Free,” Editorial in The New York Times, January 12, 2000
"Mexico's One-Way Remedy," Editorial in The New York Times, July 18, 2000.
“The
Case for Choosing More Skilled Immigrants,” The
American
“Let's Be Clear About Whom We Want to Let In," Editorial in The Washington Post , December 23, 2001.
“Rethinking Foreign Students," National Review, June 17, 2002.
"Making It Worse: President Bush Has Tackled the Immigration Problem Wrongly," National Review, February 9, 2004, pp. 24-26.
"For a Few Dollars Less," The Wall Street Journal, April 18, 2006.
"A Lemon in the Senate: The Immigration Deal is a Travesty of a Mockery of a Sham," National Review Online, May 17, 2007.
"Economics of Migration," prepared for the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. February 2000.
"Market Responses to Interindustry Wage Differentials" (with Valerie A. Ramey), July 2000.
"The Evolution of the Mexican-Born Workforce in the United States" (with Lawrence F. Katz), April 2005.
"Immigration in High-Skill Labor Markets: The Impact of Foreign Students on the Earnings of Doctorates," March 2006.
"Immigration and African-American Employment Opportunities: The Response of Wages, Employment, and Incarceration to Labor Supply Shocks" September 2006.
(Updated March 29, 2006)