• DOI:10.1257/JEP.9.2.3
Corpus ID: 9506404

The Economic Benefits from Immigration

@inproceedings{Borjas1994TheEB,
  title={The Economic Benefits from Immigration},
  author={G. Borjas},
  year={1994}
}

G. Borjas

Published 1994

Economics

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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