Issues in the Economics of Immigration

Name: Issues in the Economics of Immigration
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ISBN: 9780226066318

ISBN-10: 0226066312

ISBN-13: 9780226066318

Edition: 2000

Authors: George J. Borjas

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The United States is now admitting nearly one million legal immigrants per year, while the flow of illegal aliens into the country continues to increase steadily. The debate over immigration policy has typically focused on three fundamental questions: How do immigrants perform economically relative to others? What effects do immigrants have on the employment opportunities of other workers? What kind of immigration policy is most beneficial to the host country? This authoritative volume represents a move beyond purely descriptive assessments of labor market consequences toward a more fully developed analysis of economic impacts across the social spectrum. Exploring the broader repercussions…

Book details

List price: $99.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 3/15/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 408
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Economic Progress of Immigrants



The Educational Attainment of Immigrants: Trends and Implications



Diversity and Immigration



Convergence in Employment Rates of Immigrants



The Changing Skill of New Immigrants to the United States: Recent Trends and Their Determinants



The More Things Change: Immigrants and the Children of Immigrants in the 1940s, the 1970s, and the 1990s



Do Children of Immigrants Make Differential Use of Public Health Insurance?



Social Security Benefits of Immigrants and U.S. Born



The Role of Deportation in the Incarceration of Immigrants


Contributors


Author Index


Subject Index