Immigration Economics by George J. Borjas: A Review Essay

David Card and Giovanni Peri

Journal of Economic Literature, 2016, vol. 54, issue 4, 1333-49

Abstract: We review Immigration Economics by George J. Borjas, published in 2014 by Harvard University Press. The book is written as a graduate-level textbook, and summarizes and updates many of Borjas's important contributions to the field over the past thirty years. A key message of the book is that immigration poses significant costs to many members of the host-country labor market. Though the theoretical and econometric approaches presented in the book will be very useful for students and specialists in the field, we argue that the book presents a one-sided view of immigration, with little or no attention to the growing body of work that offers a more nuanced picture of how immigrants fit into the host-country market and affect native workers.

JEL-codes: A22 J11 J24 J31 J61 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
Note: DOI: 10.1257/jel.20151248
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