U.S. Immigration Policy at a Crossroads

Harriet Duleep ()
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Harriet Duleep: Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy, The College of William and Mary

No 130, Working Papers from Economics Department, William & Mary

Abstract: Two issues have taken center stage in the recent debates about U.S. immigration policy: one, illegal immigration and more generally the entrance of poorly educated individuals into the U.S. economy and two, whether the U.S. should continue its family-based admissions system or move towards a skills-based system. This paper analyzes these issues culling evidence from the history of U.S. immigration policy, the experiences of different types of U.S. immigrants, and crossnational comparisons.

Keywords: immigration; illegal immigration; effect on poorly educated natives; entrepreneurship; human capital investment; skill transferability; opportunity cost; learning transferability; family-based admissions; permanence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J24 J39 J61 L26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 48 pages
Date: 2013-03-17
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