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The Economics of Immigration

Theory and Policy

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  • © 2009

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Authors:
  1. Hendrik Van den Berg
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  2. Örn B. Bodvarsson
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  • Brings to light the causes and consequences of immigration

  • A complex phenomenon viewed from a long-run, dynamic, and interdisciplinary perspective

  • Fills a long lasting gap in the economic literature of immigration

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Immigration Theory and Evidence

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-26
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    2. Introduction to Immigration Economics

      • Örn B. Bodvarsson, Hendrik Van den Berg
      Pages 1-19

    3. The Determinants of International Migration: Theory

      • Örn B. Bodvarsson, Hendrik Van den Berg
      Pages 27-57

    4. Why People Immigrate: The Evidence

      • Örn B. Bodvarsson, Hendrik Van den Berg
      Pages 59-77

    5. Who Immigrates? Theory and Evidence

      • Örn B. Bodvarsson, Hendrik Van den Berg
      Pages 79-106

    6. The Effects of Immigration on the Destination Economy: The Theory

      • Örn B. Bodvarsson, Hendrik Van den Berg
      Pages 107-132

    7. How Immigration Impacts the Destination Economy: The Evidence

      • Örn B. Bodvarsson, Hendrik Van den Berg
      Pages 133-157

    8. Estimating Immigration’s Impact: Accounting for all Adjustments

      • Örn B. Bodvarsson, Hendrik Van den Berg
      Pages 159-182

    9. Immigration and the Source Country

      • Örn B. Bodvarsson, Hendrik Van den Berg
      Pages 183-219

    10. Economic Growth and Immigration

      • Örn B. Bodvarsson, Hendrik Van den Berg
      Pages 221-258

  3. Immigration issues and cases

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 259-260
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    2. Temporary Immigration, Involuntary Immigration, and Other Variations on the Standard Model

      • Örn B. Bodvarsson, Hendrik Van den Berg
      Pages 261-285

    3. Unauthorized Immigration

      • Örn B. Bodvarsson, Hendrik Van den Berg
      Pages 287-313

    4. Hispanic Immigration to the United States

      • Örn B. Bodvarsson, Hendrik Van den Berg
      Pages 315-341

  4. Immigration Policy: Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 343-347
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    2. Immigration Policy in the United States

      • Örn B. Bodvarsson, Hendrik Van den Berg
      Pages 349-377

    3. Immigration Policy in Canada

      • Örn B. Bodvarsson, Hendrik Van den Berg
      Pages 379-394

    4. Immigration Policy in Europe

      • Örn B. Bodvarsson, Hendrik Van den Berg
      Pages 395-414

    5. Conclusions and Final Observations

      • Örn B. Bodvarsson, Hendrik Van den Berg
      Pages 415-428
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The inspiration for this book came from a collaborative research project on immigration, begun in 2001, when we were colleagues at University of Nebraska- Lincoln (Bodvarsson was a Visiting Professor there in 2001–05). Our project dealt with the application of Say’s Law to the supply of immigrant labor, meaning that when the supply of immigrant labor grows in an area, the new immigrants, being consumers, bolster labor demand and help to offset the lower wages they may bring about. Our test case was the seemingly obscure Dawson County, Nebraska, where the meatpacking industry experienced a relatively huge increase in Hispanic-born labor supply around 1990. We found for Dawson County this ‘‘demand effect’’ to be signi?cant and our results for this test case generalizable to other, more prominent, test cases. This inspired us to study the famous Mariel Boatlift, where Miami’s labor force grew suddenly by 7% due to the arrival of nearly 125,000 Cuban refugees in the spring of 1980. In that study, we showed that the Marielitos exerted a signi?cant demand effect, which we argue helps to account for the stylized fact that the Mariel in?ux had a relatively benign effect on the Miami labor market. We had the privilege of presenting both studies at various conferences in the USA, Norway, Taiwan and Israel, and these studies have been published in Labour Economics and the Research in Labor Economics series (both studies are discussed in detail in this book).

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