3.1 — Immigration — Readings
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
Readings
- Clemens, 2006, “Economics and Emigration: Trillion-Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk?”
- Tabarrok, 2015, “The Case for Getting Rid of Borders—Completely,” The Atlantic
- NPR Planet Money, 2015, Ep. 654: “When the Boats Arrive”
Optional Readings (Primary Sources)
- Borjas, 1994, “The Economics of Immigration”
- Peri, 2018, “Lessons From Immigration Economics”
- Peri, 2009, “Task Specialization, Immigration, and Wages”
- Peri, 2016, “Immigrants, Productivity, and Labor Markets”
- Autor, Dorn, and Hanson, 2016, “The China Shock: Learningfrom Labor-Market Adjustmentto Large Changes in Trade”
- Card, “How Immigration Affects U.S. Cities”, Ch. 6 in Making Cities Work
- Clemens, 2017, “What the Mariel Boatlift of Cuban Refugees Can Teach Us about the Economics of Immigration: An Explainer and a Revelation,” Center for Global Development
- Pew Research, 2020, “Key Findings About U.S. Immigrants”