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Online-Ressource (412 p.)
ISBN:
9780226066318
Serie:
NBER-Conference Report v.2000
Inhalt:
The United States is now admitting nearly one million legal immigrants per year, while the flow of illegal aliens into the country continues to increase steadily. The debate over immigration policy has typically focused on three fundamental questions: How do immigrants perform economically relative to others? What effects do immigrants have on the employment opportunities of other workers? What kind of immigration policy is most beneficial to the host country? This authoritative volume represents a move beyond purely descriptive assessments of labor market consequences toward a more fully deve
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Issues in the Economics of Immigration; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Economic Progress of Immigrants; 2. The Educational Attainment of Immigrants: Trends and Implications; 3. Diversity and Immigration; 4. Convergence in Employment Rates of Immigrants; 5. The Changing Skill of New Immigrants to the United States: Recent Trends and Their Determinants; 6. The More Things Change: Immigrants and the Children of Immigrants in the 1940s, the 1970s, and the 1990s; 7. Do Children of Immigrants Make Differential Use of Public Health Insurance?
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8. Social Security Benefits of Immigrants and US. Born9. The Role of Deportation in the Incarceration of Immigrants; Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index;
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ISBN 9780226066677
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ISBN 9780226066318
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Issues in the Economics of Immigration
Sprache:
Englisch
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