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The Economics of Immigration Theory and Policy

:	Hendrik Van den Berg, Örn B. Bodvarsson
:	The Economics of Immigration Theory and Policy
:	Springer-Verlag
:	9783540777960
:	1
:	CHF 89.20
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:	Politik
:	English

:	434
:	DRM
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'The Economics of Immigration. Theory and Policy' is written as a both a reference for researchers and as a textbook on the economics of immigration. It is aimed at two audiences: (1) researchers who are interested in learning more about how economists approach the study of human migration flows, and (2) graduate students taking a course on migration or a labor economics course where immigration is one of the subfields studied. The book covers the economic theory of immigration, which explains why people move across borders and details the consequences of such movements for the source and destination economies. The book also describes immigration policy, providing both a history of immigration policy in a variety of countries and using the economic theory of immigration to explain the determinants and consequences of the policies. The timing of this book coincides with the emergence of immigration as a major political and economic issue in the USA, Japan Europe and many developing countries.

	Preface	5
	Contents	7
	Chapter 1 Introduction to Immigration Economics	17
	1.1 The Late Twentieth Century Immigration Explosion	18
	1.2 The Determinants of Immigration	22
	1.3 A Brief History of Immigration	26
	1.4 There are Many Types of Immigrants	30
	1.5 The Purpose and Organization of this Book	32
	References	34
	Part I Immigration Theory and Evidence	36
	Modeling Immigration	36
	I.1 The Basic Labor Market Model of Immigration	37
	I.2 Who Gains and who Loses with Immigration?	39
	I.3 Building on the Basic Labor Market Model	41
	Chapter 2 The Determinants of International Migration: Theory	42
	Chapter Overview	42
	2.1 The Theory of Internal Migration	44
	2.2 The Economic Theory of Immigration	54
	2.3 The Family or Household as the Decision-Making Unit	66
	2.4 Summary and Conclusions	68
	References	69
	Chapter 3 Why People Immigrate: The Evidence	73
	Chapter Overview	73
	3.1 Regression Models of Immigration	74
	3.2 The Choice of Variables in Statistical Models of Immigration	79
	3.3 The Empirical Evidence on the Determinants of Migration	83
	3.4 Summary and Concluding Remarks	88
	References	90
	Chapter 4 Who Immigrates? Theory and Evidence	92
	Chapter Overview	92
	4.1 Immigrant Selection: The Chiswick Vs. Borjas Debate	94
	4.2 Extensions of the Borjas Model	101
	4.3 The Empirical Evidence on Immigrant Selectivity	106
	4.4 The Asymmetric Information Model	109
	4.5 The Theory of Immigrant Assimilation	111
	4.6 Addressing Borjas’ Critique	115
	4.7 Conclusions	117
	References	118
	Chapter 5 The Effects of Immigration on the Destination Economy: The Theory	120
	Chapter Overview	120
	5.1 The Macro Effects of Immigration	121
	5.2 Detailing the Distributional Effects of Immigration	129
	5.3 Long-Run Adjustment Processes	133
	5.4 The Demand Effect of Immigration	135
	5.5 Concluding Remarks	142
	References	143
	Chapter 6 How Immigration Impacts the Destination Economy: The Evidence	146
	Introduction	146
	6.1 The Spatial Correlation Method	147
	6.2 The Production Function Method	159
	6.3 The Skill Cell Approach	163
	6.4 Concluding Remarks	167
	References	168
	Chapter 7 Estimating Immigration’s Impact: Accounting for all Adjustments	171
	Chapter Introduction	171
	7.1 Does Immigration Trigger Internal Migration?	172
	7.2 Migration Biases Estimates of Immigration’s Wage Effect	176
	7.3 Does Immigration Change Industry Structure?	178
	7.4 Measuring the Demand Effects of Immigration	179
	7.6 The Costs of Government Services for Immigrants	185
	7.7 Immigration’s External Effects	188
	7.8 Concluding Remarks	191
	References	192
	Chapter 8 Immigration and the Source Country	195
	8.1 Remittances and Demand Effects in the Source Country	196
	8.2 What We Know About Immigrant Remittances	200
	8.3 Negative Externalities from Agglomeration	207
	8.4 Immigration and Technology Transfers, Investment, and Trade	210
	8.5 The Brain Drain	213
	8.6 A Reassessment of the Brain Drain	222
	8.7 Conclusions	228
	References	229
	Chapter 9 Economic Growth and Immigration	232
	9.1 The Early Models of Economic Growth	233
	9.2 The Solow Growth Model	238
	9.3 Immigration and Technological Progress	243
	9.4 Immigration in the Schumpeterian Model	252
	9.5 Protectionism, Creative Destruction, and Immigration	257
	9.6 Growth Effects of Immigration in the Source Country	259
	9.7 The Brain Drain Again	261
	9.8 Summary and Conclusions	262
	Appendix: An Alternative Mathematical Schumpeterian Model	263
	A.1 Innovation and Profit	264
	A.2 The Equilibrium Level of Entrepreneurial Activity	265
	A.3 The Equilibrium Rate of Technological Progress	265
	References	267
	Part II Immigration Issues and Cases	270
	Chapter 10 Temporary Immigration, Involuntary Immigration, and Other Variations on the Standard Model	272
	Chapter Overview	272
	10.1 Return Immigration	273
	10.2 Temporary Immigration	276
	10.3 Analyzing Temporary Migration	279
	10.4 Asylum Seekers and Refugees	287
	10.5 Inv