The Economics of Immigration

Market-Based Approaches, Social Science, and Public Policy

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ID19969735
EditorsBenjamin Powell (0000-0002-1054-4306)
Year2015
Pages256
Publication date2015-09-22
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueEconomics of Immigration (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190258788.001.0001
OpenAlexW2338280806
Open LibraryOL28572853M
ISBN9780190258788
LanguageEN
Citations received13

This book summarizes the best social science studying the impact of immigration and finds that much of it is at odds with popular fears. Greater flows of immigration have the potential to substantially increase world income and reduce extreme poverty. Existing evidence indicates that immigration slightly enhances the wealth of the native born in destination countries while doing little to harm the job prospects or reduce the wages of most of the native-born population. Similarly, although a matter of debate, most credible scholarly estimates of the net fiscal impact of current migration find only small positive or negative impacts. Importantly, current generations of immigrants do not appear to be assimilating more slowly than prior waves. Although the range of debate on the consequences of immigration is much narrower in scholarly circles than in the general public, that does not mean that all social scientists agree on what a desirable immigration policy embodies. The second half of this book contains three chapters, each by a social scientist who is knowledgeable of the scholarship summarized in the first half of the book, which argue for very different policy immigration policies. One proposes to significantly cut current levels of immigration. Another suggests an auction market for immigration permits. The third proposes open borders. The final chapter surveys the policy opinions of other immigration experts and explores the factors that lead reasonable social scientists to disagree on matters of immigration policy

Demographic economics · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Harm · Immigration · Immigration policy · Net migration rate · Odds · Political science · Population · Population growth · Poverty · Scholarship · Sociology · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Business & Economics · Civics & Citizenship · Economic aspects · emigration and immigration · Government policy · Labor · Public policy · Social policy

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