LEADER 05235nam 2200805 a 450 001 9910961053803321 005 20230501182853.0 010 $a9786613339898 010 $a9781283339896 010 $a1283339897 010 $a9781400841509 010 $a140084150X 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400841509 035 $a(CKB)2550000000066121 035 $a(EBL)804864 035 $a(OCoLC)768731927 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000887501 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12345021 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000887501 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10847317 035 $a(PQKB)10058833 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000551414 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11338736 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000551414 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10537646 035 $a(PQKB)10764736 035 $a(OCoLC)899265878 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse37055 035 $a(DE-B1597)447681 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400841509 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL804864 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10514791 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL333989 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC804864 035 $a(Perlego)735403 035 $a(FR-PaCSA)88833394 035 $a(FRCYB88833394)88833394 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000066121 100 $a19990217d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aHeaven's door $eimmigration policy and the American economy /$fGeorge J. Borjas 205 $aWith a New preface by the author 210 1$aPrinceton, N.J. :$cPrinceton University Press,$d1999. 215 $a1 online resource (282 pages) $cillustrations 300 $a"Second printing, and first paperback printing, with a new preface"--T.p. verso. 311 0 $a9780691059662 311 0 $a0691059667 311 0 $a9780691088969 311 0 $a0691088969 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tPREFACE --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tCHAPTER 1. Reframing the Immigration Debate --$tCHAPTER 2. The Skills of Immigrants --$tCHAPTER 3. National Origin --$tCHAPTER 4. The Labor Market Impact of Immigration --$tCHAPTER 5. The Economic Benefits from Immigration --$tCHAPTER 6. Immigration and the Welfare State --$tCHAPTER 7. Social Mobility across Generations --$tCHAPTER 8. Ethnic Capital --$tCHAPTER 9. Ethnic Ghettos --$tCHAPTER 10. The Goals of Immigration Policy --$tCHAPTER 11. A Proposal for an Immigration Policy --$tCHAPTER 12. Conclusion --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aThe U.S. took in more than a million immigrants per year in the late 1990's, more than at any other time in history. For humanitarian and many other reasons, this may be good news. But as George Borjas shows in Heaven's Door, it's decidedly mixed news for the American economy--and positively bad news for the country's poorest citizens. Widely regarded as the country's leading immigration economist, Borjas presents the most comprehensive, accessible, and up-to-date account yet of the economic impact of recent immigration on America. He reveals that the benefits of immigration have been greatly exaggerated and that, if we allow immigration to continue unabated and unmodified, we are supporting an astonishing transfer of wealth from the poorest people in the country, who are disproportionately minorities, to the richest. In the course of the book, Borjas carefully analyzes immigrants' skills, national origins, welfare use, economic mobility, and impact on the labor market, and he makes groundbreaking use of new data to trace current trends in ethnic segregation. He also evaluates the implications of the evidence for the type of immigration policy the that U.S. should pursue. Some of his findings are dramatic: Despite estimates that range into hundreds of billions of dollars, net annual gains from immigration are only about$8billion. In dragging down wages, immigration currently shifts about$160 billion per year from workers to employers and users of immigrants' services. Immigrants today are less skilled than their predecessors, more likely to re-quire public assistance, and far more likely to have children who remain in poor, segregated communities. Borjas considers the moral arguments against restricting immigration and writes eloquently about his own past as an immigrant from Cuba. But he concludes that in the current economic climate--which is less conducive to mass immigration of unskilled labor than past eras--it would be fair and wise to return immigration to the levels of the 1970's (roughly 500,000 per year) and institute policies to favor more skilled immigrants. 606 $aImmigrants$zUnited States$xEconomic conditions 607 $aUnited States$xEmigration and immigration$xEconomic aspects 607 $aUnited States$xEmigration and immigration$xGovernment policy 607 $aUnited States$xEconomic conditions$y1981-2001 615 0$aImmigrants$xEconomic conditions. 676 $a325.73 700 $aBorjas$b George J$0124108 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910961053803321 996 $aHeaven's door$9512544 997 $aUNINA