A month or two back, Professor George Borgas, professor of economics at the Kennedy School at Harvard and a leading researcher on the economics of immigration (and a Cuban immigrant in childhood) published a new book, We Wanted Workers: Unravelling the Immigration Narrative. Borgas’s empirical work has led him to be somewhat sceptical of whether there are material economic gains to Americans from non-citizen immigration, and to suggest that perhaps immigration policy – even in the US – is largely just a redistributionist policy, typically away from the more lowly-skilled Americans. His empirical work has suggested long-term losses to these relatively low income people.
I haven’t yet read the book – much of which, I understand, is a more popular treatment of material dealt with more formally in his Immigration Economics a couple of years ago. But Reason magazine – a libertarian-oriented publication – has published a substantial and…
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