The Gateway : U.S. immigration issues and policies edited by Barry R. Chiswick

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chiswick, Barry R.

American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. College of Business Administration.

Series:

AEI symposia ; 81I

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Emigration and immigration--Congresses.

United States.

Emigration and immigration law--United States--Congresses.

Emigration and immigration law.

Physical Description:

476 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, c1982.

Contents:

Introduction / Barry R. Chiswick

Part I. The supply of anddemand for immigrants

Recent immigration policy : an analysis / David M. Reimers

The supply of immigrants to the United States / Michael J. Greenwood and John M. McDowell

Taxation and international migration : recent policy issues / Jagdish N. Bhagwatti

Commentaries / Carmel U. Chiswick, Lorene Yap

Part II. The progress of immigrants

The economic progress of immigrants : some apparently universal patterns / Barry R. Chiswick

Immigration and religio-ethnic groups : a sociological reappraisal / Andrew M. Greeley

Twentieth-century Mexican migration to the United States / Walter Fogel

Commentaries / Nigel Tomes, Andrea Tyree, Jose Alberro

Part III. The economic impact of immigrants

Immigrant-inequality trade-offs in the Promised Land : income distribution and absorptive capacity prior to the quotas / Jeffrey G. Williamson

The impact of immigration on the level and distribution of economic well-being / Barry R. Chiswick

The overall effect of immigrants on natives' incomes / Julian L. Simon

Commentaries / Dan Usher, Allan G. King, Warren C. Sanderson

Part IV. Alternative immigration policies

Potential for a U.S. guest-worker program in agriculture : lessons from the Braceros / Larry C. Morgan and Bruce L. Gardner

Occupational preferences in the U.S. immigration law : an economic analysis / Robert S. Goldfarb

Commentaries / Linda S. Liner, Philip L. Martin, David S. North, Edwin P. Reubens

Notes:

Proceedings of a conference cosponsored by the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research and the College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, and held Apr. 10-11, 1980 at the UICC campus.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

The Balch Ethnic Studies Collection.

ISBN:

0844722200 (pbk.)

9780844722207 (pbk.)

0844722219 (hard)

9780844722214 (hard)

OCLC:

7576704