Heaven's Door - Couverture souple

Borjas, George J.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0691088969 ISBN 13 : 9780691088969

Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2001

Synopsis

The U.S. took in more than a million immigrants per year in the late 1990s, more than at any other time in history. For humanitarian and many other reasons, this may be good news. But as George Borjas shows in "Heaven's Door", it's decidedly mixed news for the American economy - and positively bad news for the country's poorest citizens. Widely regarded as the country's leading immigration economist, Borjas presents the most comprehensive, accessible, and up-to-date account yet of the economic impact of recent immigration on America. He reveals that the benefits of immigration have been greatly exaggerated and that, if we allow immigration to continue unabated and unmodified, we are supporting an astonishing transfer of wealth from the poorest people in the country, who are disproportionately minorities, to the richest. In the course of the book, Borjas carefully analyzes immigrants' skills, national origins, welfare use, economic mobility, and impact on the labor market, and he makes groundbreaking use of new data to trace current trends in ethnic segregation. He also evaluates the implications of the evidence for the type of immigration policy the that U.S. should pursue.Some of his findings are dramatic: despite estimates that range into hundreds of billions of dollars, net annual gains from immigration are only about $8 billion. In dragging down wages, immigration currently shifts about $160 billion per year from workers to employers and users of immigrants' services. Immigrants today are less skilled than their predecessors, more likely to re-quire public assistance, and far more likely to have children who remain in poor, segregated communities. Borjas considers the moral arguments against restricting immigration and writes eloquently about his own past as an immigrant from Cuba. But he concludes that in the current economic climate - which is less conducive to mass immigration of unskilled labor than past eras - it would be fair and wise to return immigration

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

George J. Borjas is Pforzheimer Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government Harvard University and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is the author of several books, including Wage Policy in the Federal Bureaucracy, Friends or Strangers: The Impact of Immigrants on the U.S. Economy and Labor Economics.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Princeton University Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0691088969
• ISBN 13: 9780691088969
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 290