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George Borjas

Harvard Kennedy School
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[BOOK][B] Labor economics

GJ Borjas, JC Van Ours - 2010 - students.aiu.edu
… Professor Borjas received his Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University in 1975.
Professor Borjas has written extensively on labor market issues. He is the author of …

The economics of immigration

GJ Borjas - The New Immigrant in the American Economy, 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
The early work of Gilles Grenier, and Walter McManus, William Gould, and Finis Welch
concluded that US immigrants who are proficient in the English language have higher earnings …

The Labor Demand Curve is Downward Sloping: Reexamining the Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market

GJ Borjas - The quarterly journal of economics, 2003 - academic.oup.com
Immigration is not evenly balanced across groups of workers who have the same education
but differ in their work experience, and the nature of the supply imbalance changes over time…

The economic benefits from immigration

GJ Borjas - Journal of economic perspectives, 1995 - aeaweb.org
Natives benefit from immigration mainly because of production complementarities between
immigrant workers and other factors of production, and these benefits are larger when …

How much do immigration and trade affect labor market outcomes?

GJ Borjas, RB Freeman, LF Katz, J DiNardo… - Brookings papers on …, 1997 - JSTOR
IMMIGRATION AND TRADE-particularly with less developed countries (LDCs)-have become
more significant to the US economy since the 1960s than they were earlier in the postwar …

Self-selection and the earnings of immigrants

GJ Borjas - 1987 - nber.org
This paper analyzes the way in which the earnings of the immigrant population may be
expected to differ from the earnings of the native population because of the endogeneity of the …

Assimilation, changes in cohort quality, and the earnings of immigrants

GJ Borjas - Journal of labor Economics, 1985 - journals.uchicago.edu
This paper reexamines the empirical basis for two "facts" that seem to be found in most cross-section
studies of immigrant earnings: (1) the earnings of immigrants grow rapidly as they …

Does immigration grease the wheels of the labor market?

GJ Borjas - Brookings papers on economic activity, 2001 - muse.jhu.edu
MOST STUDIES OF the economic impact of immigration are motivated by the desire to
understand how immigrants affect various dimensions of economic status in the population of the …

Native internal migration and the labor market impact of immigration

GJ Borjas - Journal of Human resources, 2006 - jhr.uwpress.org
This paper presents a theoretical and empirical study of how immigration influences the joint
determination of the wage structure and internal migration behavior for native-born workers …

The economic analysis of immigration

GJ Borjas - Handbook of labor economics, 1999 - Elsevier
The study of labor flows across labor markets is a central ingredient in any discussion of
labor market equilibrium. These labor flows help markets reach a more efficient allocation of …