The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration

2016/09/21 by Panel on the Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine · 1 voice · 5 citations
Social Sciences · #Migration and Labor Dynamics

paper · pdf · doi:10.17226/23550

openalex publication_date 2016/09/21 · openalex created_date 2016/09/30 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02

Abstract

ment of the labor market could be very short. Either way, if the economy simply returns to a larger version of its pre-immigration state, with the same capital-labor ratio, there are no winners and losers among the native-born, but equally, no net benefit to them from immigration.

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