Legal U.S. Immigration : influences on gender, age, and skill composition /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Greenwood, Michael J. (Autor), McDowell, John M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Kalamazoo, Mich. : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1999.
Temas:
Immigrants > United States > Econometric models.
Human capital > United States.
Immigrants > États-Unis > Modèles économétriques.
Ressources humaines > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Emigration and immigration
Emigration and immigration > Government policy
Human capital
United States > Emigration and immigration.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
États-Unis > Émigration et immigration.
États-Unis > Émigration et immigration > Politique gouvernementale.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Economic Effects of Immigrants 2
  • Empirical Measures of the Effects of Immigration 7
  • Aggregate Effects 7
  • Subgroup Effects 9
  • Industry-Specific Effects 10
  • Region-Specific Effects 11
  • Studies beyond Production Theory 11
  • Immigrant Composition and its Importance 13
  • 2 United States Immigration Policy 19
  • A Brief History of U.S. Immigration Policy 21
  • The Immigration Act of 1924 23
  • Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1965 24
  • The Immigration Act of 1990 27
  • Recent U.S. Policy 29
  • Immigration Policy and the Composition of Immigration 31
  • 3 A Brief History of U.S. Immigration 37
  • Waves of Immigration 37
  • The First Wave 37
  • The Second Wave 40
  • The Third Wave 41
  • The Fourth Wave 42
  • Source Regions of Immigrants 44
  • Historical U.S. Immigration: Gender, Age, and Skill 45
  • Gender Composition 45
  • Age Composition 48
  • Skill Composition 48
  • 4 The Immigration Data 55
  • Number of Records and Types of Information 56
  • Practical Problems 60
  • The Volume of the Data 60
  • Immigrant Source Countries 61
  • Periodicity of the Data 61
  • Refugees 61
  • Age Detail 66
  • Occupational Information 66
  • Flaws in the INS Data 69
  • Missing Records for 1979 69
  • Missing Information for Certain Years 69
  • General Assessment of the INS Data 73
  • Composition of U.S. Immigration, 1972-1991 73
  • Immigrant Gender 74
  • Immigrant Age 77
  • Skill Composition 81
  • 5 Modeling Flows of U.S. Immigration 89
  • Prior Models 89
  • Modeling the Determinants of Migration to the United States 93
  • Differential Economic Opportunities 94
  • Migration Costs 95
  • Political Attractiveness and Religion 96
  • U.S. Immigration Policy 97
  • Social Programs in Source Countries 98
  • 6 The Gender Composition of U.S. Immigration 113
  • The Gender Composition Model 114
  • Estimation of the Gender Equation 118
  • 7 The Age Composition of U.S. Immigrants 131
  • The Age Composition Model 132
  • The Concept of the Marginal Migrant 133
  • Hypotheses 135
  • Estimation of the Age Composition Equations 138
  • All Immigrants 139
  • Immigrants by Gender 143
  • Male and Female Immigrants by Entry Class 146
  • 8 The Skill Composition of U.S. Immigration 155
  • The Skill Composition Model 156
  • The Marginal Migrant Once Again 156
  • Hypotheses 159
  • Estimation of the Skill Composition Equation 162
  • All Immigrants 163
  • Immigrants by Gender 169
  • Male and Female Immigrants by Entry Class 174
  • Factors that Influence U.S. Immigration
  • Source-Country Characteristics 182
  • Differential Economic Opportunities 182
  • Migration Costs 188
  • Political Attractiveness and Religion 190
  • Source-Country Social Programs 190
  • Factors that Influence U.S. Immigration
  • U.S. Policy 193
  • Policy Options 195
  • Legal Immigration 195
  • Illegal Migration 196
  • Compositional Consequences of U.S. and Canadian Policies 198
  • Implications for U.S. Immigration Policy 199
  • Aspects of the New Law 199
  • Immigration under the New Law 202
  • Implications for Immigration under the Act of 1990 206.

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