Foundational Essays in Immigration Economics

Borjas, George

Foundational Essays in Immigration Economics

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Abstract: This book collects the main papers written by George Borjas on the economics of immigration during a decades-long career. Although there was little interest in immigration issues among economists before the 1980s, the literature has exploded since. The essays collected in this book represent some of the contributions that helped build the foundations of immigration economics. The essays cover a wide range of topics, including the assimilation of immigrants, the skill characteristics of the immigrant population, the intergenerational progress of immigrant households, the measurement of the impact of immigrants on the labor markets of receiving countries, and the calculation of the economic benefits from immigration. The essays included in this volume continue to be widely cited and have often set the research agenda for subsequent research on immigration in both receiving and sending countries.

Keywords: Immigration; Economics; Labor Markets; Refugees; Self-selection; Return Migration; Migration; Costs and Benefits from Immigration; Assimilation; Cohort Effects; National Origin; Ethnicity; Neighborhood Effects; Ethnic Capital; Internal Migration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F66 J01 J15 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
ISBN: 9789811240805
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 2 Assimilation, Changes in Cohort Quality, and the Earnings of Immigrants , pp 3-29: George Borjas
Ch 3 The Slowdown in the Economic Assimilation of Immigrants: Aging and Cohort Effects Revisited Again , pp 31-65: George Borjas
Ch 4 Self-Selection and the Earnings of Immigrants , pp 69-91: George Borjas
Ch 5 WHO LEAVES? THE OUTMIGRATION OF THE FOREIGN-BORN , pp 93-104: George Borjas and Bernt Bratsberg
Ch 6 ETHNIC CAPITAL AND INTERGENERATIONAL MOBILITY , pp 107-134: George Borjas
Ch 7 Ethnicity, Neighborhoods, and Human-Capital Externalities , pp 135-160: George Borjas
Ch 8 How Much Do Immigration and Trade Affect Labor Market Outcomes? , pp 163-234: George Borjas, Richard Freeman and Lawrence Katz
Ch 9 THE LABOR DEMAND CURVE IS DOWNWARD SLOPING: REEXAMINING THE IMPACT OF IMMIGRATION ON THE LABOR MARKET , pp 235-274: George Borjas
Ch 10 Native Internal Migration and the Labor Market Impact of Immigration , pp 275-312: George Borjas
Ch 11 THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION AND THE PRODUCTIVITY OF AMERICAN MATHEMATICIANS , pp 313-373: George Borjas and Kirk Doran
Ch 12 THE WAGE IMPACT OF THE MARIELITOS: A REAPPRAISAL , pp 375-408: George Borjas
Ch 13 The Economic Benefits from Immigration , pp 411-430: George Borjas
Ch 14 Does Immigration Grease the Wheels of the Labor Market? , pp 431-484: George Borjas

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