Vai al contenuto principale della pagina
Titolo: | Immigration and the work force [[electronic resource] ] : economic consequences for the United States and source areas / / edited by George J. Borjas and Richard B. Freeman |
Pubblicazione: | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1992 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (294 p.) |
Disciplina: | 331.6/2/0973 |
Soggetto topico: | Foreign workers - United States |
Labor market - United States | |
Emigrant remittances | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: | BorjasGeorge J FreemanRichard B <1943-> (Richard Barry) |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
Nota di contenuto: | 1. National origin and the skills of immigrants in the postwar period / George J. Borjas -- 2. Out-migration and return migration of Puerto Ricans / Fernando A. Ramos -- 3. The assimilation of immigrants in the U.S. labor market / Robert J. LaLonde and Robert H. Topel -- 4. The fertility of immigrant women : evidence from high-fertility source countries / Francine D. Blau -- 5. Mass emigration, remittances, and economic adjustment : the case of El Salvador in the 1980s / Edward Funkhouser -- 6. When the minimum wage really bites : the effect of the U.S.-level minimum on Puerto Rico / Alida J. Castillo-Freeman and Richard B. Freeman -- 7. On the labor market effects of immigration and trade / George J. Borjas, Richard B. Freeman, and Lawrence F. Katz -- 8. The effect of immigrant arrivals on migratory patterns of native workers / Randall K. Filer. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Since the 1970's, the striking increase in immigration to the United States has been accompanied by a marked change in the composition of the immigrant community, with a much higher percentage of foreign-born workers coming from Latin America and Asia and a dramatically lower percentage from Europe. This timely study is unique in presenting new data sets on the labor force, wage rates, and demographic conditions of both the U.S. and source-area economies through the 1980's. The contributors analyze the economic effects of immigration on the United States and selected source areas, with a focus on Puerto Rico and El Salvador. They examine the education and job performance of foreign-born workers; assimilation, fertility, and wage rates; and the impact of remittances by immigrants to family members on the overall gross domestic product of source areas. A revealing and original examination of a topic of growing importance, this book will stand as a guide for further research on immigration and on the economies of developing countries. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Immigration and the work force |
ISBN: | 1-299-10454-1 |
0-226-06670-3 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910454172903321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |