Issues in the Economics of Immigration
1st Edition
Published on 15. April 2008
412 pages
978-0-226-06667-7 (ISBN)
Description
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 of immigration on education, welfare, Social Security, and crime, as well as the labor market, these papers assess dimensions not yet taken into account by traditional cost-benefit calculations.This collection offers new insights into the kinds of economic opportunities and outcomes that immigrant populations might expect for themselves and future generations.
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Content
- Intro
- Issues in the Economics of Immigration
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Economic Progress of Immigrants
- 2. The Educational Attainment of Immigrants: Trends and Implications
- 3. Diversity and Immigration
- 4. Convergence in Employment Rates of Immigrants
- 5. The Changing Skill of New Immigrants to the United States: Recent Trends and Their Determinants
- 6. The More Things Change: Immigrants and the Children of Immigrants in the 1940s, the 1970s, and the 1990s
- 7. Do Children of Immigrants Make Differential Use of Public Health Insurance?
- 8. Social Security Benefits of Immigrants and US. Born
- 9. The Role of Deportation in the Incarceration of Immigrants
- Contributors
- Author Index
- Subject Index
