Immigration and the Work Force : Economic Consequences for the United States and Source Areas.
Since the 1970s, the striking increase in immigration to the United States has been accompanied by a marked change in the composition of the immigrant community, with a much higher percentage of foreign-born workers coming from Latin America and Asia and a dramatically lower percentage from Europe....
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1992
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| Series: | National Bureau of Economic Research project report.
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Table of Contents:
- Immigration and the Work Force; Contents; Preface; Introduction and Summary; 1. National Origin and the Skills of Immigrants in the Postwar Period; 2. Out-Migration and Return Migration of Puerto Ricans; 3. The Assimilation of Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Market; 4. The Fertility of Immigrant Women: Evidence from High-Fertility Source Countries; 5. Mass Emigration, Remittances, and Economic Adjustment: The Case of El Salvador in the 1980s; 6. When the Minimum Wage Really Bites: The Effect of the U.S.-Level Minimum on Puerto Rico; 7. On the Labor Market Effects of Immigration and Wade.
