We wanted workers : unraveling the immigration narrative
tarafından
 
Borjas, George J., author.

Başlık
We wanted workers : unraveling the immigration narrative

Yazar
Borjas, George J., author.

ISBN
9780393249019

Yazar Ek Girişi
Borjas, George J., author.

Basım Bilgisi
First edition.

Fiziksel Tanımlama
238 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

İçerik
Introduction -- Lennon's utopia -- How we got here -- The self-selection of immigrants -- Economic assimilation -- The melting pot -- The labor market impact -- The economic benefits -- The fiscal impact -- Who are you rooting for? -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Özet
We are a nation of immigrants, and we have always been concerned about immigration. As early as 1645, the Massachusetts Bay Colony began to prohibit the entry of "paupers." Today, however, the notion that immigration is universally beneficial has become pervasive. To many modern economists, immigrants are a trove of much-needed workers who can fill predetermined slots along the proverbial assembly line. But this view of immigration's impact is overly simplified, explains George J. Borjas, a Cuban-American, Harvard labor economist. Immigrants are more than just workers -- they're people who have lives outside of the factory gates and who may or may not fit the ideal of the country to which they've come to live and work. Like the rest of us, they're protected by social insurance programs, and the choices they make are affected by their social environments. In We Wanted Workers, Borjas pulls back the curtain of political bluster to show that, in the grand scheme, immigration has not affected the average American all that much. But it has created winners and losers. The losers tend to be nonmigrant workers who compete for the same jobs as immigrants. And somebody's lower wage is somebody else's higher profit, so those who employ immigrants benefit handsomely. In the end, immigration is mainly just another government redistribution program. "I am an immigrant, " writes Borjas, "and yet I do not buy into the notion that immigration is universally beneficial ... But I still feel that it is a good thing to give some of the poor and huddled masses, people who face so many hardships, a chance to experience the incredible opportunities that our exceptional country has to offer.

Konu Başlığı
Labor market -- United States.
 
İş gücü piyasası -- Amerika Birleşik Devletleri.

Coğrafi Terim
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects.
 
Amerika Birleşik Devletleri -- Göç ve göçmenlik -- Ekonomik etkiler.


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Ekonomi KütüphanesiKitapEKOBKN0010663331.10973 BOR 2016Merkez Kütüphane Genel Koleksiyon