Heaven's Door : : Immigration Policy and the American Economy / / George J. Borjas.
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 positivel...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | With a New preface by the author |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 40 line illus., 23 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CHAPTER 1. Reframing the Immigration Debate
- CHAPTER 2. The Skills of Immigrants
- CHAPTER 3. National Origin
- CHAPTER 4. The Labor Market Impact of Immigration
- CHAPTER 5. The Economic Benefits from Immigration
- CHAPTER 6. Immigration and the Welfare State
- CHAPTER 7. Social Mobility across Generations
- CHAPTER 8. Ethnic Capital
- CHAPTER 9. Ethnic Ghettos
- CHAPTER 10. The Goals of Immigration Policy
- CHAPTER 11. A Proposal for an Immigration Policy
- CHAPTER 12. Conclusion
- Notes
- Index