Immigration Economics by George J. Borjas: A Review Essay

• Autores: David Card, Giovanni Peri
• Localización: Journal of economic literature, ISSN 0022-0515, Vol. 54, Nº 4, 2016, págs. 1333-1349
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • We review Immigration Economics by George J. Borjas, published in 2014 by Harvard University Press. The book is written as a graduate-level textbook, and summarizes and updates many of Borjas's important contributions to the field over the past thirty years. A key message of the book is that immigration poses significant costs to many members of the host-country labor market. Though the theoretical and econometric approaches presented in the book will be very useful for students and specialists in the field, we argue that the book presents a one-sided view of immigration, with little or no attention to the growing body of work that offers a more nuanced picture of how immigrants fit into the host-country market and affect native workers.