George J. Borjas is the leading researcher on immigration in the world. Maybe he should win the Nobel Prize for telling the truth about international migration, when so many won’t.This could be the Nobel Prize in economics as well as peace.
September 24, 2006
“Black Crime: The Immigration Dimension“
By Steve Sailer
Mankiw quotes:
“Immigration and African-American Employment Opportunities: The Response of Wages, Employment, and Incarceration to Labor Supply Shocks” September 2006.
from George J. Borjas, Jeffrey Grogger, Gordon H. Hanson
“The employment rate of black men, and particularly of low-skill black men, fell precipitously from 1960 to 2000. At the same time, the incarceration rate of black men rose markedly. This paper examines the relation between immigration and these trends in black employment and incarceration. Using data drawn from the 1960-2000 U.S. Censuses, we find a strong correlation between immigration, black wages, black employment rates, and black incarceration rates. As immigrants disproportionately increased the supply of workers in a particular skill group, the wage of black workers in that group fell, the employment rate declined, and the incarceration rate rose. Our analysis suggests that a 10-percent immigrant-induced increase in the supply of a particular skill group reduced the black wage by 3.6 percent, lowered the employment rate of black men by 2.4 percentage points, and increased the incarceration rate of blacks by almost a full percentage point.”
“Borjas strikes again! Shows Foreign TAs hurt American undergrads“
By Peter Brimelow at Vdare.com
“Foreign-Born Teaching Assistants and the Academic Performance of Undergraduates,” American Economic Review, May 2000, pp. 355-359. (Survey Instrument)
This paper shows that Foreign TA’s really do hurt the education of American students. If those students are future teachers, then that continues to harm American students.
“Do Foreign Students Crowd Out Native Students from Graduate Programs,” in Science and the University, edited by Ronald G. Ehrenberg and Paula E. Stephan, University of Wisconsin Press, forthcoming 2005.
A few Borjas Working papers:
“Economics of Migration,” prepared for the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. February 2000.
“Market Responses to Interindustry Wage Differentials” (with Valerie A. Ramey), July 2000.
“The Evolution of the Mexican-Born Workforce in the United States” (with Lawrence F. Katz), April 2005.
“Immigration in High-Skill Labor Markets: The Impact of Foreign Students on the Earnings of Doctorates,” March 2006.
“Immigration and African-American Employment Opportunities: The Response of Wages, Employment, and Incarceration to Labor Supply Shocks” September 2006.
