The Economic Consequences of Immigration
Published on 18. January 1990
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-631-15527-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book undertakes an objective and comprehensive inquiry into the economic consequences of immigration into the United States and concludes that immigration is, on the whole, beneficial to US natives. Among the many novel features of Simon's analysis are a comparison between the received theory of the international movement of goods and the movement of capital, from which he concludes that they are far less similar than supposed; the analysis of the cost of the use of capital by immigrants; the estimate of the cost of use of demographic capital. Although the book is based on experience in the United States, its investigations apply to most of the developed countries.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
figs.tabs.
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-631-15527-0 (9780631155270)
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11/1999
The University of Michigan Press
€95.43
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Content
Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction and Summary. 2. Some General Theory of Immigration's Consequences. 3. The Demographic Dimensions of Immigration into the United States. 4. Behavioral Characteristics of Immigrants. 5. Effects of Immigrants upon the Public Coffers. 6. How Much Welfare and Public Services Do Immigrants (and Natives) Use? 7. The Effect on Natives' Incomes from Immigrants' Use of Capital Goods. 8. The Effects on Technology, Productivity and Native Human Capital. 9. Impacts upon Natural Resources and the Environment. 10. The Overall Effect of Immigrants upon Natives' Standard of Living. 11. Job Displacement: Theory of Immigrants and Native Unemployment. 12. Empirical Studies of Labor Market Effects. 13. The Effects of Immigrants upon Income Distribution. 14. The Sending Countries, the Immigrants Themselves, and the World as a Whole. 15. The `Question' of Illegal Immigrants and Guestworkers. 16. Evaluation of Immigrant Policies. 17. Conclusions and Summary of Main Findings. Appendix A: Are There Grounds for Limiting Immigration? Appendix B: Public Opinion Toward Immigration. Appendix C: Views of Economists and Other Social Scientists Toward Immigration by Stephen Moore and Julian L. Simon. Appendix D: Immigration, International Relations and National Security. References and Bibliography Index.