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Immigrants and jobs.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the editor)
In "Comprehensively Awful" (June 11), John O'Sullivan calls it "well known that immigration redistributes income from the poor to the rich as immigrants are willing to work for lower wages than native-born Americans." Like so many "well known" economic notions, this smacks of an abstract deductive model, which is a basic tool of economic analysis, yet must be tested against reality in each practical case.
Such a case was offered by the Mariel boatlift of 1980, when Castro allowed some 125,000 Cubans to leave the country. Of those who fled, about half settled in or around Miami, raising the labor force of the city by 7 percent. Where the abstract model of academic economics had it that the Marielitos would take jobs from blacks and depress their wages, Prof. David Card of UC-Berkeley showed ...
- Seductive Cinema: The Art of Silent Film.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: National Review LeJeune, Anthony September 12, 1994 700+ words
By James Card (Knopf, 304 pp., $35) FROM boyish enthusiasm to nostalgic affection Professor Card has enjoyed a lifelong love affair with silent movies. He turned his passion into a career, becoming probably the most distinguished...
- Divide is too deep for immigration reform.(FEATURES)(CURRENTS)
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor March 13, 2006 700+ words
...California at Berkeley. "Overall, evidence that immigrants have harmed the opportunities of less educated natives is scant," Professor Card concludes. However, Harvard University economist George Borjas reckons that the inflow of so many immigrants with less...
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- Magazine article from: World Literature Today Winik, Marion January 1, 2008 700+ words
...like ourselves, there were just a few, and most of them we brought with us. "We" being my husband, the philosophy professor, card magician, and reggae addict, Crispin Sartwell; the gang being a group of Americans we're staying with down the road...
- Immigration pause.(legal immigration)(Editorial)
- Magazine article from: National Review April 22, 1996 700+ words
...reported several years ago, as the post - 1965 Immigration Act influx started driving the data. Indeed, they appear in Professor Card's later work. This phenomenon was discussed in George Borjas's Journal of Economic Literature survey of the field in...
Source: HighBeam Research, Immigrants and jobs.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the editor)