Immigrants and the US Economy.

• Position: Conferences

An NBER conference on Immigrants and the US Economy took place March 3-4 online. Research Associates Aimee Chin of the University of Houston and Kalena Cortes of Texas A&M University organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Navid Sabet, University of Frankfurt, and Christoph Winter, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, "Legal Status, Local Spending and Political Empowerment: The Distributional Consequences of the 1986 IRCA"

* Joan Llull, Markets, Organizations and Votes in Economics, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, and Barcelona School of Economics, "Selective Immigration Policies and the US Labor Market"

* Toman Barsbai, University of Bristol; Andreas Steinmayr, University of Innsbruck; and Christoph Winter, "Immigrating into a Recession: Evidence from Family Migrants to the US"

* Abhinav Gupta, New York University, "Labor Mobility, Firm Monopsony, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Immigration Wait-Lines"

* William J. Collins and Ariell Zimran, Vanderbilt University and...