Immigration, Trade, and the Labor Market.

Immigration, Trade, and the Labor Market, edited by John M. Abowd and Richard B. Freeman, is available from the University of Chicago Press for $49.95. This NBER Project Report focuses on the growing internationalization of the American labor market that began in the 1970s and 1980s.

Among the interesting findings of this project are: 1) Immigration into an area does not discernibly reduce the wages and employment of low-skilled native workers in that area. But increased imports reduce the pay and employment of workers in competing domestic industries. 2) There are far fewer illegal immigrants in the United States than has been...