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The New Immigrant in the American Economy - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the New Immigration

English · Hardback

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First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Borjas, G.J. 'The Economics of Immigrants.' Journal of Economic Literature 32 (1994).  Huber, G.A. and Espenshade, T.J. 'Neo-isolationism, Balanced-budget Conservatism and the Fiscal Impacts of Immigrants.' International Migration Review 31 (1997).  Simon, J. 'Public Expenditures on Immigrants to the United  States, Past and Present.' Population and Development Review 22 (1996).  Friedberg, R.M. and Hunt, J. 'The Impact of Immigrants on Host Country Wages, Employment and Growth.' Journal of Economic Perspectives 9 (1995).  Altonji, J.G. and Card, D. 'The Effects of Immigration on the Labor Market Outcomes of Less-skilled Natives.' In J. Abowd and R. Freeman, Eds., Immigration, Trade and the Labor Market (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1991).  Bean, F.D., Lowell, B.L. and Taylor, L.J. 'Undocumented Mexican Immigrants and the Earnings of Other Workers in the United States.' Demography 25 (1988).  Chiswick, B.R. 'The Effects of Americanization on the Earnings of Foreign-born Men.' Journal of Political Economy 86 (1978).  Waldinger, R. and Gilbertson, G. 'Immigrant Progress: Ethnic and Gender Differences Among US Immigrants in the 1980s.' Sociological Perspective 37 (1994).  Lindstron, D.P. and Massey, D. 'Selective Immigration, Cohort Quality and Models of Immigrant Assimilation.' Social Science Research 23 (1994).  Nee, V. and Sanders, J. 'On the Road to Parity: Determinants of the Socioeconomic Achievements of Asian Americans.' Ethnic and  Racial Studies 8 (1985).  Hirschman, C. and Wong, M.G. 'Socioeconomic Gains of Asian Americans, Blacks and Hispanics: 1960-1976.' American Journal of Sociology 90 (1984).  Myers, D. and Lee, S.W. 'Immigrant Trajectories into Homeownership: A Temporal Analysis of Residential Assimilation.' International Migration Review 32 (1998).  Tienda, M. and Singer, A. 'Wage Mobility of Undocumented Workers in the US.' International Migration Review 29 (1995).  Portes, A. 'The Social Origins of the Cuban Enclave Economy of Miami.' Sociological Perspectives 30 (1987).  Smith, J.P. and Edmonston, B. 'Summary.' In The  New Americans: Economic, Demographic and Fiscal Effects of Immigration (Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1997).  List of Recommended Readings

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Professors Suárez-Orozco are co-directors of the Harvard Immigration Project. Marcelo Suárez-Orozco is an anthropologist at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education and leading authority in the field of immigration. Carola Suárez-Orozco is a cultural psychologist, lecturer, and research associate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Center for Latin Amercan Studies. Desirée Qin-Hilliard is a Ph.D. student in the Harward Graduate School of Education.


Summary

This series focuses on Latin American, Caribbean and Asian immigration, bringing together the major scholarly contributions published over the last decade investigating the profound demographic change of the last half century.

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