The Short- and Long-Run Determinants of Less-Educated Immigrant Flows into U.…

income differentials affect the flow of immigrants into U.S. states using annual data from the American Community Survey. We add to existing literature by decomposing income differentials into short- and long-term components and by focusing on newly arrived lesseducated immigrants between 2000 and 2009. Our sample is unique in that the vast majority of our observations take zero values. Models…