The Economic Benefits from Immigration

George Borjas

Chapter 13 in Foundational Essays in Immigration Economics, 2021, pp 411-430 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: The rapid increase in the size of the immigrant flow reaching the United States, the major changes in the national origin composition of the immigrant population, and the decline in the skills of immigrants relative to the skills of native workers have rekindled the debate over immigration policy. The current debate revives the old concerns over immigrants “taking jobs away” from native workers and finding it difficult to adapt in the American economy, as well as questions whether immigrants pay their way in the welfare state…

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
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Journal Article: The Economic Benefits from Immigration (1995)
Working Paper: The Economic Benefits from Immigration (1994)
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