TOPICS
- Economic
immigration
- Economic effects of immigration
- The illegal immigration debate
OUTCOMES
Understand the historical
pattern of legal and illegal immigration the United
States.
List the factors influencing the
decision to migrate.
Understand the potential impact
immigration can have on wage rates, efficiency, and
output. "Impact on Wage Rates, Efficiency, and Output"
Understand how immigration can
affect income shares.
Identify potential complications
with the traditional model of immigration: Remittances,
Full-Employment or Unemployment, and Complements and
Substitutes.
Understand the effect immigration
to the United States has on Federal, State, and Local
governments' fiscal position.
Understand the illegal immigration
debate in the context of " job crowding-out".
["Impact of Illegal Workers in a Low Wage Labor
Market"]
Explain the potential price
effects that illegal immigration can have on an
economy.
Understand the concept of
'optimal' immigration
Discuss the effect on
substitute resources and complementary resources on
employment
From paragraph 8 of the above
website: "Nearly all economists, of all political
persuasions, agree that immigrants — those here
legally or not — benefit the overall economy.
“That is not controversial,” Heidi
Shierholz, an economist at the Economic Policy
Institute, told me. Shierholz also said that
“there is a consensus that, on average, the
incomes of families in this country are increased by a
small, but clearly positive amount, because of
immigration.”
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