Acknowledgements

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Introduction / Howard F. Chang

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pt. I

ECONOMIC BENEFITS OF LABOR MIGRATION

1.

`The Economic Costs to International Labor Restrictions: Revisiting the Empirical Discussion', World Development, 32(10), October, 1609--26 / Bjørn Letnes

3

2.

`Economics and Emigration: Trillion-Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk?', Journal of Economic Perspectives, 25(3), Summer, 83--106 / Michael A. Clemens

21

3.

`The Economic Benefits from Immigration', Journal of Economic Perspectives, 9(2), Spring, 3--22 / George J. Borjas

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pt. II

IMPACT OF IMMIGRATION IN THE LABOR MARKET

A.

Inferences from Cross-Section Data on Local Labor Markets

4.

`The Substitutability of Natives and Immigrants in Production', Review of Economics and Statistics, 64(4), November, 596--603 / Jean Baldwin Grossman

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5.

`The Economics of Immigration', Journal of Economic Literature, XXXII(4), December, 1667--717 / George J. Borjas

77

6.

`The Impact of Immigrants on Host Country Wages, Employment and Growth', Journal of Economic Perspectives, 9(2), Spring, 23--44 / Jennifer Hunt

128

7.

`The Impact of the Mariel Boatlift on the Miami Labor Market', Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 43(2), January, 245--57 / David Card

150

8.

`Immigrant Inflows, Native Outflows, and the Local Labor Market Impacts of Higher Immigration', Journal of Labor Economics, 19(1), January, 22--64 / David Card

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B.

Models of the National Labor Market

9.

`The Labor Demand Curve Is Downward Sloping: Reexamining the Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118(4), November, 1335--74 / George J. Borjas

209

10.

`Immigration and Inequality', American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 99(2), May, 1--21 / David Card

249

11.

`Rethinking the Effect of Immigration on Wages', Journal of the European Economic Association, 10(1), February, 152--97 / Giovanni Peri

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12.

`Comment: On Estimating Elasticities of Substitution', Journal of the European Economic Association, 10(1), February, 198--210 / Gordon H. Hanson

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C.

Imperfect Substitution between Immigrants and Natives

13.

`The Effect of Low-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Prices: Evidence from CPI Data', Journal of Political Economy, 116(3), June, 381--422 / Patricia Cortes

331

14.

`Task Specialization, Immigration, and Wages', American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 1(3), July, 135--69 / Chad Sparber

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D.

Female Labor Supply and the Excess Burden of Protectionism

15.

`Immigration Restriction as Redistributive Taxation: Working Women and the Costs of Protectionism in the Labor Market', Journal of Law, Economics and Policy, 5(1), Spring, 1--29 / Howard F. Chang

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16.

`Low-Skilled Immigration and the Labor Supply of Highly Skilled Women', American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 3(3), July, 88--123 / Jose Tessada

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pt. III

FISCAL IMPACT OF IMMIGRATION

17.

`The Future Fiscal Impacts of Current Immigrants', in James P. Smith and Barry Edmonston (eds), The New Americans: Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of Immigration, Chapter 7, Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 297--362 / Panel on the Demographic and Economic Impacts of Immigration, National Research Council

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pt. IV

IMMIGRATION LAW AND REFORM

A.

Analyzing the Effects of Immigration Laws and Proposing Reforms

18.

`Coming out of the Shadows: Learning about Legal Status and Wages from the Legalized Population', Journal of Labor Economics, 20(3), July, 598--628 / Deborah A. Cobb-Clark

549

19.

`Migration as International Trade: The Economic Gains from the Liberalized Movement of Labor', UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs, 3(2), 371--414 / Howard F. Chang

580

20.

`The Law and Economics of Immigration Policy', American Law and Economics Review, 5(2), August, 271--317 / Michael J. Trebilcock

624

21.

`Sharing the Risks and Rewards of Economic Migration', University of Chicago Law Review, 80(1), Winter, 29--56 / Anu Bradford

671

22.

`Cultural Communities in a Global Labor Market: Immigration Restrictions as Residential Segregation', University of Chicago Legal Forum, 2007, 93--130 / Howard F. Chang

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B.

Economic Accounts of Immigration Laws and Institutions

23.

`The Rights of Migrants: An Optimal Contract Framework', New York University Law Review, 84(6), December, 1403--63 / Eric A. Posner

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24.

`International Cooperation on Migration: Theory and Practice', University of Chicago Law Review, 80(1), Winter, 315--39 / Alan O. Sykes

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