Heaven's Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy. By George J. Borjas. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. Pp. xvii, 263. $16.95, paper.

By Philip Martin, George J Borjas. Journal Economic History, 2000

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Labor Supply Prospects in 16 Developed Countries, 2000–2050 (2001, background): “Accordingly, domestic low-skilled workers can be left out of the formal market because of their low skills and out of the informal market because of the higher wages that employers would be expected to pay them (Borjas 1999).”
“Picking Winners”: The Recent Transformation of Australia's Skilled Migration Policy (2005, background): “Comparable trends were emerging at this time in other immigrant-receiving countries, including Canada and the US (Dougherty, 1999; Borjas, 1999; Thomas & Boyd, 1999).”
Immigrant skill utilization in the Canadian labour market: Implications of human capital research (2001, background): “In the hypothetical 'perfect market' of classical economic theory, there is no discrimination of either kind, under-utilization of immigrant skills or pay inequity (Borjas, 1999, pp. 50-51).”
Comparing Immigration Policies: An Overview from the IMPALA Database 1 (2016, background): “Some scholars focus upon the real or expected economic impacts of past immigration, such as fears about labor-market competition (Borjas 1999; Scheve and Slaughter 2001; Mayda 2006).”
Public Finance and Individual Preferences over Globalization Strategies (2007, unknown): “This was one source of pressure on Wilson to reduce fiscal transfers to immigrants.5 Texas, in contrast, has a weaker 3On immigrant welfare take-up, see Borjas and Hilton (1996), Borjas (1999a, 1999b), Fix and Passel (1999), Zimmermann and Tumlin (1999), and Fix and Passel (2002).”
ON THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF IMMIGRATION AND INCOME REDISTRIBUTION (2004, unknown): “tion into the US. Borjas ([ 6 ],[7],[8]) provides good references for this literature, while appearing to conclude”
The Economic Consequences of the International Migration of Labor (2008, unknown): “Their results suggest Indian emigration to the United States cost India net tax contributions of 0.24% of GDP in 2000.”