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US immigration policy at a crossroads
Two issues have taken center stage in the recent debates about U.S. immigration policy: one, illegal immigration and more generally the entrance of poorly educated individuals into the U.S. economy and two, whether the U.S. should continue its family-based admissions system or move towards a skills-based system. This paper analyzes these issues culling evidence from the history of U.S. immigration policy, the experiences of different types of U.S. immigrants, and cross-national comparisons.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 7136
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Wirtschaft
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: Other
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
Entrepreneurship
- Subject
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immigration
illegal immigration
effect on poorly educated natives
entrepreneurship
human capital investment
skill transferability
opportunity cost
learning transferability
family-based admissions
permanence
Migrationspolitik
Einwanderungsrecht
Qualifikation
Familie
Illegale Einwanderung
USA
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Duleep, Harriet Orcutt
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Bonn
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2013
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Duleep, Harriet Orcutt
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2013