3.1 — Immigration — Class Content

Meeting Date

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Overview

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”

Slides

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