How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it … possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation … immigration does not, but rather reduces the share of offshored jobs instead. Moreover, since both phenomena have a positive "cost …

Many countries pursue an immigration policy that is targeted at attracting high skilled workers. Borjas (1995) has … shown that assuming perfect labor markets immigration leads to a welfare gain for the native population, the so …-called immigration surplus. Thus, as the labor market for high skilled workers exhibits few frictions, high skilled immigration should …

How many 'American jobs' have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it … possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation … immigration does not, but rather reduces the share of offshored jobs instead. Moreover, since both phenomena have a positive 'cost …

in the population increases patents per capita by 6%. This could be an overestimate of immigration's benefit if immigrant …

Two issues have taken center stage in the recent debates about U.S. immigration policy: one, illegal immigration and … evidence from the history of U.S. immigration policy, the experiences of different types of U.S. immigrants, and cross …

New Zealand immigration policy settings are based on the assumption that the macroeconomic impacts of immigration may … are possible. Reviewing the literature, the balance of evidence suggests that while past immigration has, at times, had … significant net benefits, over the past couple of decades the positive effects of immigration on per capita growth, productivity …