Handbook of the economics of international migration Volume 1B: The impact and regional studies
The economic literature on international migration interests policymakers as well as academics throughout the social sciences. These volumes, the first of a new subseries in the Handbooks in Economics, describe and analyze scholarship created since the inception of serious attention began in the lat...
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| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | The economic literature on international migration interests policymakers as well as academics throughout the social sciences. These volumes, the first of a new subseries in the Handbooks in Economics, describe and analyze scholarship created since the inception of serious attention began in the late 1970s. This literature appears in the general economics journals, in various field journals in economics (especially, but not exclusively, those covering labor market and human resource issues), in interdisciplinary immigration journals, and in papers by economists published in journals associated with history, sociology, political science, demography, and linguistics, among others Front Cover; Introduction to the series; Volume 1B The Impact and RegionalStudies; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Reviewers; Preface; Introduction; In memoriam: Paul W. Miller (1955-2013); Part IV: The Impact of Immigration; Chapter 15: Immigration and the Distribution of Incomes; 1. Introduction; 2. The Impact of Immigration on the Distribution of Income: Conceptual Issues; 3. Evidence on the Compositional Effects of Immigration on Income Distribution; 4. The Impact of Immigration on the Native Income Distribution: Theory 8. Beyond Wage Effects: Immigration, Child Care, Native Women's Labor Supply, and the Family Income Distribution9. Immigration and the World Income Distribution; 10. Summary and Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 16: The Fiscal Impact of Immigrants: Taxes and Benefits; 1. Introduction; 2. The Political Setting; 3. Estimating the Fiscal Impact of Immigration; 3.1. Who counts as an immigrant?; 3.2. The fiscal impact of today, tomorrow, or forever?; 3.3. Fiscal environment; 3.4. Which public consumption expenditures?; 4. What Determines the Fiscal Impact of Immigration? 5.5. The dynamic evidence for the US5.6. The dynamic evidence for European countries; 6. The Fiscal Impact of Emigration; 7. What is Missing from the Current Analysis?; 7.1. Broader general equilibrium effects; 7.2. Fiscal impacts by immigration category; 7.3. Middle-income countries; 8. Summary; References; Chapter 17: Immigration and Entrepreneurship; 1. Introduction; 2. The Contribution of Immigrant Entrepreneurs to the Economy; 3. Immigrant Business Ownership; 3.1. Who are immigrant entrepreneurs in the United States? 4.1. Immigrant characteristics4.2. Host country characteristics; 5. The Existing Literature on the Fiscal Impact of Immigration; 5.1. The static evidence for the US; 5.1.1. National-level estimates based on the total immigrant population; 5.1.2. Estimates for the undocumented immigrant population; 5.1.3. Low-skilled immigrants; 5.1.4. Local level estimates; 5.2. The static evidence for the UK; 5.2.1. Estimates based on the total immigrant population; 5.2.2. Central and Eastern Europeans; 5.3. The static evidence for other European countries; 5.4. Cross-country static evidence 5. Empirical Issues in Estimating the Impact of Immigration on the Income Distribution6. Evidence on the Impact of Immigration on Relative Wages; 6.1. Aggregate production function approaches; 6.2. Cross-area, occupation, or industry approaches; 6.3. Episodes of immigration shocks; 6.4. An evaluation of the evidence on the impact of immigration on relative wages; 6.5. Evidence on adjustments in output mix and induced technological change; 7. Additional Evidence on Foreign Migration: Emigration |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index |
| Physical Description: | 890 pages illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9780444537690 0444537694 |