Issues in the economics of immigration / / editor, George J. Borjas

• Pubblicazione: Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , 2000
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (412 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 330.9
• Soggetto topico: Emigration and immigration - Economic aspects; Emigration and immigration - History
• Soggetto non controllato: immigrant, economy, economics, legal, united states, usa, america, american, debate, controversy, controversial, finance, financial, money, wealth, income, worker, employment, career, job, workplace, policy, education, welfare, social security, crime, cost benefit, congress, diversity, trends, implications, 1940s, 1970s, 1990s, deportation
• Altri autori: BorjasGeorge J
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- 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 1940's, the 1970's, and the 1990's -- 7. Do Children of Immigrants Make Differential Use of Public Health Insurance? -- 8. Social Security Benefits of Immigrants and U.S. Born -- 9. The Role of Deportation in the Incarceration of Immigrants -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Issues in the economics of immigration
• ISBN: 1-281-43079-X; 9786611430795; 0-226-06667-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820552503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Conference report (National Bureau of Economic Research)