Immigration, Economic Freedom, and Ideology

Alexandre Padilla and Nicolas Cachanosky

The International Trade Journal, 2020, vol. 34, issue 1, 5-17

Abstract: Concerns about immigrants’ impact on US institutions are not new. We find such concerns in the correspondences and writings of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton. More recently, Borjas argues immigrants from countries with poor institutions could substantially undermine US institutions negating all economic gains associated with immigration in terms of GDP and income. In this article, we review our research, attempting to measure immigrants’ impact on US states’ institutions. Our results don’t confirm Borjas’s hypothesis. Our results show that whatever impact immigrants may have on US institutions is neither statistically nor economically significant.

Date: 2020
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