US immigration policy at a crossroads

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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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 7136

Classification and Topics

• Classification: 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: 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

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Duleep, Harriet Orcutt
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2013

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/69389
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET