The Economic Consequences of Immigration Book

	List of Figures
	List of Tables
	Foreword
	Preface
	Acknowledgements
1	Introduction	1
2	Some General Theory of Immigration's Consequences	12
3	The Demographic Dimensions of Immigration into the United States	22
4	Behavioral Characteristics of Immigrants	60
5	Effects of Immigrants upon the Public Coffers	112
6	How Much Welfare and Public Services do Immigrants (and Natives) Use?	139
7	The Effect on Natives' Incomes from Immigrants' Use of Capital Goods	153
8	The Effects on Technology, Productivity, and Native Human Capital	175
9	Impacts upon Natural Resources and the Environment	197
10	The Overall Effect of Immigrants upon Natives' Standard of Living	206
11	Job Displacement: Theory of Immigrants and Native Unemployment	220
12	Empirical Studies of Labor-Market Effects	237
13	The Effects of Immigrants upon Income Distribution and Prices	269
14	The Sending Countries, the Immigrants Themselves, and the World as a Whole	291
15	The "Question" of Illegal Immigrants and Guestworkers	302
16	Evaluation of Immigration Policies	335
17	Conclusions and Summary of Main Findings	365
App. A	Are there Grounds for Limiting Immigration?	375
App. B	Public Opinion toward Immigration	377
App. C	Views of Economists and other Social Scientists toward Immigration	385
App. D	Immigration, International Relations, and National Security	390
	References and Bibliography	393
	Index	425