Economics of Immigration : Market-Based Approaches, Social Science, and Public Policy

Powell, Benjamin (EDT)

ISBN 10: 0190258799 / ISBN 13: 9780190258795

Published by Oxford University Press, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Economics of Immigration : Market-Based Approaches, Social Science, and Public Policy
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0190258799
• ISBN 13: 9780190258795
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The Economics of Immigration shows that immigration could significantly boost world GDP, does little to impact the job prospects or wages of the native born population, has little net fiscal impact, and that immigrants are not assimilating more slowly than prior generations. Yet even a given agreement on these basic tenets, economists dramatically different immigration policies.

About the Author

Benjamin Powell is the Director of the Free Market Institute and Professor of Economics in the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University. He is a past President of the Association of Private Enterprise Education and a senior fellow with the Independent Institute. He has published several books and more than 50 scholarly articles, writes frequently in the popular press, and is interviewed regularly on television. He earned his Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University.