Table of Contents: Immigration :

Other Authors:	Chiswick, Barry R.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam ; San Diego, CA. : Elsevier JAI, ©2008.
Series:	Research in labor economics ; v. 27
Subjects:	Immigrants > Economic conditions. > United States Immigrants > Social conditions. > United States BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Government policy. > Labor. POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations. Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects. Emigration and immigration > Government policy. Emigration and immigration > Social aspects. Immigrants > Economic conditions. Immigrants > Social conditions. United States > Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects. United States > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects. United States > Emigration and immigration United States.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction / Barry R. Chiswick
Migrants to America since 1986 / David M. Reimers
Immigrant skill transferability and the propensity to invest in human capital / Harriet O. Duleep
Modeling immigrants language skills / Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller
Green cards and the location choices of immigrants in the United States, 1971-2000 / David A. Jaeger
Immigrant and native asset accumulation in housing / Sherrie A. Kossoudji
First- and second-generation immigrant educational attainment and labor market outcomes : a comparison of the United States and Canada / Abdurrahman Aydemir, Arthur Sweetman
Immigration amnesty and immigrant's earnings / Ira N. Gang, Myeong-Su Yun
Welfare reform and immigrants : does the five-year ban matter? / Robert Kaestner, Neeraj Kaushal
Impacts of the point system and immigration policy levers on skill characteristics of Canadian immigrants / Charles M. Beach, Alan G. Green, Christopher Worswick.