The Economic Benefits from Immigration
@inproceedings{Borjas1994TheEB, title={The Economic Benefits from Immigration}, author={G. Borjas}, year={1994} }
Natives benefit from immigration mainly because of production complementarities between immigrant workers and other factors of production, and these benefits are larger when immigrants are sufficiently `different' from the stock of native productive inputs. The available evidence suggests that the economic benefits from immigration for the United States are small, on the order of $6 billion and almost certainly less than $20 billion annually. These gains, however, could be increased… CONTINUE READING
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