Book Reviews

2010 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 1028-1030
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
International Migration ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Dartmouth College ◽  
State University ◽  
Unauthorized Immigration ◽  
United States Immigration ◽  
States Immigration ◽  
The University

Ethan G. Lewis of Dartmouth College reviews “The Economics of Immigration: Theory and Policy” by Orn B. Bodvarsson and Hendrik Vanden Berg. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins “Textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students presents an expository survey and assessment of the literature on international migration. Discusses an introduction to immigration economics; the determinants of international migration--theory; why people immigrate--the evidence; who immigrates--theory and evidence; the effects of immigration on the destination economy--the theory; how immigration impacts the destination economy--the evidence; estimating immigration’s impact--accounting for all adjustments; immigration and the source country; economic growth and immigration; temporary immigration, involuntary immigration, and other variations on the standard model; unauthorized immigration; Hispanic immigration to the United States; immigration policy in the United States; immigration policy in Canada; and immigration policy in Europe. Bodvarsson is with the Department of Economics at St. Cloud State University. Van den Berg is with the Department of Economics at the University of Nebraska. No index.”

United States Immigration Policy and Unsanctioned Migrants

ILR Review ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter Fogel
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Relative Wage ◽  
Rapid Economic Growth ◽  
Native Workers ◽  
United States Immigration ◽  
States Immigration ◽  
Alternate Forms ◽  
Large Flow

After providing an introduction to the symposium as a whole, this paper argues that basic changes are needed in this country's immigration policy to cope with the large flow of migrants who have entered the United States illegally in recent years. Fogel attacks the position, described best in Michael J. Piore's recent study, Birds of Passage, that most illegal immigrants fill only those jobs that native workers will not take and intend their stay in the United States to be temporary, not permanent. Fogel disputes both of those claims and argues that alternate forms of adjustment to labor shortages are available and preferable. He favors an immigration policy that would make our society less heavily dependent on rapid economic growth and, by reducing the number of migrants permitted to enter this country, would increase the relative wage of low-skilled indigenous workers. He recommends particularly the adoption of a law prohibiting the employment of illegal aliens and levying civil or criminal penalties on employers who violate that law.

The Impact of U.S. Immigration Policy on the Economic “Quality” of German and Austrian Immigrants in the 1930s

1992 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 940-967 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary David Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Quality Standards ◽  
The United States ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
United States Immigration ◽  
States Immigration ◽  
The Impact

The results of this study are used to evaluate United States immigration policy during the 1930s. Under the “likely to become a public charge” clause (the LPC clause), consular officers were expected to distinguish among intended immigrants on the basis of their likelihood of becoming public charges at any time subsequent to their arrival in the United States. If the LPC clause was implemented with any degree of efficiency, the group of refugees which arrived before the clause was renounced in March 1938 would have been subjected to stricter economic-quality standards than the group which arrived after it was renounced. The results of a European economic quality comparison between LPC refugees and post-LPC refugees suggest that the LPC clause did not result in any significant quality distinctions between the immigrants of the two groups. Descriptive statistics and regression analysis show that there is not any evidence that refugees who arrived while the LPC clause was in effect had any less U.S. earnings potential and, thus, were any less likely to become public charges than refugees who arrived after the LPC clause was renounced.

Notice of transfer of figured specimens of North American Devonian cyclocystoids

1993 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-151
Author(s):  
R. William Orr ◽  
Richard H. Fluegeman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
North American ◽  
The United States ◽  
State University ◽  
Ball State University ◽  
Geological Museum ◽  
University College ◽  
University Of Cincinnati ◽  
The University

In 1990 (Fluegeman and Orr) the writers published a short study on known North American cyclocystoids. This enigmatic group is best represented in the United States Devonian by only two specimens, both illustrated in the 1990 report. Previously, the Cortland, New York, specimen initially described by Heaslip (1969) was housed at State University College at Cortland, New York, and the Logansport, Indiana, specimen was housed at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. Both institutions recognize the importance of permanently placing these rare specimens in a proper paleontologic repository with other cyclocystoids. Therefore, these two specimens have been transferred to the curated paleontologic collection at the University of Cincinnati Geological Museum where they can be readily studied by future workers in association with a good assemblage of Ordovician specimens of the Cyclocystoidea.

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