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1 online resource (xxiv, 617 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
Introduction -- Immigration to the United States: current trends in historical perspective -- Socioeconomic outcomes of immigrants -- Employment and wage impacts of immigration theory -- Employment and wage impacts of immigration: empirical evidence -- Wider production, consumption, and ecnomic growth impacts -- Estimating the fiacal impacts of immigration: conceptual issues -- Past and future fiscal impacts of immigrants on the nation -- State and local fiscal effects of immigration -- Research directions and data recommendations -- References -- Appendix: Biographical sketches -- Committee on National Statistics. |
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More than 40 million people living in the United States were born in other countries, and almost an equal number have at least one foreign-born parent. Together, the first generation (foreign-born) and second generation (children of the foreign-born) comprise almost one in four Americans. It comes as little surprise, then, that many U.S. residents view immigration as a major policy issue facing the nation. Not only does immigration affect the environment in which everyone lives, learns, and works, but it also interacts with nearly every policy area of concern, from jobs and the economy, education, and health care, to federal, state, and local government budgets. The changing patterns of immigration and the evolving consequences for American society, institutions, and the economy continue to fuel public policy debate that plays out at the national, state, and local levels. The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration assesses the impact of dynamic immigration processes on economic and fiscal outcomes for the United States, a major destination of world population movements. This report will be a fundamental resource for policy makers and law makers at the federal, state, and local levels but extends to the general public, nongovernmental organizations, the business community, educational institutions, and the research community. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: pt. I BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Context and Motivation -- 1.2. Economic Impacts -- 1.3. Fiscal Impacts -- 1.4. Charge to the Panel -- 2. Immigration to the United States: Current Trends in Historical Perspective -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Immigration Trends and Origins from 1820 to 2015 -- 2.3. Immigration Driven by Labor Demand -- 2.4. Net International Migration Rate and Its Contribution to Population Growth -- 2.5. Past and Future Trends in the Stock of First and Second Generation Immigrant Populations -- 2.6. Immigration and Changes in Race and Ethnic Composition -- 2.7. Population Aging, the Baby Boom, and the Transition to an Immigrant Workforce -- 2.8. From Traditional Gateways to New Destinations: The Changing Geography of Immigrant Settlement -- 2.9. Conclusions -- 2.10. Technical Annex on Counting Immigrants -- 3. Socioeconomic Outcomes of Immigrants -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Education and Occupation Profiles -- 3.3. Employment, Wage, and English-Language Assimilation Profiles -- 3.4. Poverty and Welfare Utilization -- 3.5. Conclusions -- 3.6. Technical Annex of Tabulations and Regression Results -- 3.7. Technical Annex on Occupational Categories -- pt. II ECONOMIC IMPACTS -- 4. Employment and Wage Impacts of Immigration: Theory -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Simple Model with a Single Type of Labor -- 4.3. Employment Effects of Immigration with Elastic Labor Supply -- 4.4. Multiple Types of Labor -- 4.5. Multiple Technologies and Multiple Goods -- 4.6. Responses by Natives -- 4.7. Link Between Immigration and Frictional Unemployment -- 4.8. Conclusions -- 5. Employment and Wage Impacts of Immigration: Empirical Evidence -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Some Basic Conceptual and Empirical Issues -- 5.3. Spatial (cross-area) Studies -- 5.4. Aggregate Skill Cell and Structural Studies -- 5.5. Cross-Study Comparison of Immigrants' Impact on Wages -- 5.6. High-Skilled Labor Markets and Innovation -- 5.7. Key Messages and Conclusions -- 5.8. Annex: Summary Comparison of Selected Wage and Employment Impact Studies for the United States -- 5.9. Technical Notes for the Cross-Study Comparison of the Magnitudes of Immigrants' Impact on Wages -- 6. Wider Production, Consumption, and Economic Growth Impacts -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Impact on Overall Economic Activity (GDP) -- 6.3. Sectoral and Geographic Impacts -- 6.4. Impact on Prices of Consumer Goods and Cost of Living -- 6.5. Role of Immigration in Long-Run Economic Growth -- 6.6. Beyond GDP -- Nonmarket Goods and Services and the Informal Economy -- 6.7. Conclusions -- 6.8. Technical Annex on Models of Endogenous Growth in a Closed Economy -- pt. III FISCAL IMPACTS -- 7. Estimating the Fiscal Impacts of Immigration -- Conceptual Issues -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Sources of Fiscal Costs and Benefits -- 7.3. Static and Dynamic Accounting Approaches -- 7.4. Sources of Uncertainty: Assumptions and Scenario Choices in Fiscal Estimates -- 7.5. Distributive Fiscal Effects -- Federal, State, and Local -- 7.6. Summary and Key Points -- 8. Past and Future Fiscal Impacts of Immigrants on the Nation -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Historical Fiscal Impacts of Immigration, 1994-2013 -- 8.3. Forecasts of Lifetime Net Fiscal Impacts -- 8.4. Annex: Technical Documentation for the Fiscal Estimates -- 9. State and Local Fiscal Effects of Immigration -- 9.1. Introduction -- 9.2. Measurement Methods -- 9.3. Geographic and Demographic Distribution of Immigrants -- 9.4. Fiscal Variation Among States, 2011-2013 -- 9.5. Aggregate Fiscal Effects by State -- 9.6. Net Effects of Immigration on State and Local Budgets -- 9.7. Alternative Treatments of Education Costs -- 9.8. Marginal Versus Average Fixed Costs -- 9.9. Conclusions -- 9.10. Technical Annex: Supplemental Tables -- 10. Research Directions and Data Recommendations -- 10.1. Counting and Characterizing Immigrants and Their Descendants -- 10.2. Information on Legal Status -- 10.3. Measurement of Immigration and Emigration Patterns -- 10.4. Exploiting Multiple Data Sources. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects.
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United States. |
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Emigration and immigration. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration. |
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Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects. |
| Indexed Term |
Immigration tax cost |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Blau, Francine D., editor.
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Mackie, Christopher D., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Panel on the Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration. Economic and fiscal consequences of immigration. Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2017] 0309444454 9780309444453 |
| ISBN |
9780309444460 (electronic book) |
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0309444462 (electronic book) |
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9780309444453 (paperback) |
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0309444454 (paperback) |
| Standard No. |
YBP14592608 |
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