Immigration
Subtitle: trends, consequences and prospects for the United States
By: edited by Barry R. Chiswick.
Contributors: Chiswick, Barry R.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Research in labor economics -- v. 27
Publisher: Elsevier JAI
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Amsterdam; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 401
ISBN-13: 9780762313914
Subjects: Immigrants -- United States -- Economic conditions.; Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions.; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects.; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Migrants to America since 1986 / David M. Reimers; title: Immigrant skill transferability and the propensity to invest in human capital / Harriet O. Duleep; title: Modeling immigrants' language skills / Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller; title: Green cards and the location choices of immigrants in the United States, 1971-2000 / David A. Jaeger; title: Immigrant and native asset accumulation in housing / Sherrie A. Kossoudji; title: First- and second-generation immigrant educational attainment and labor market outcomes : a comparison of the United States and Canada / Abdurrahman Aydemir and Arthur Sweetman; title: Immigration amnesty and immigrant's earnings / Ira N. Gang and Myeong-Su Yun; title: Welfare reform and immigrants : does the five-year ban matter? / Robert Kaestner and Neeraj Kaushal; title: Impacts of the point system and immigration policy levers on skill characteristics of Canadian immigrants / Charles M. Beach, Alan G. Green and Christopher Worswick.