TY  - JOUR
AU  - Borjas,George J.
TI  - The Economic Benefits from Immigration
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 4955
PY  - 1994
Y2  - December 1994
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w4955
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w4955.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
George J. Borjas
Harvard Kennedy School
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: 617/495-1393
Fax: 617/495-9532
E-Mail: gborjas@harvard.edu
M2  - featured in NBER digest on 1995-07-01
AB  - Natives benefit from immigration mainly because of production complementarities between immigrant workers and other factors of production, and these benefits are larger when immigrants are sufficiently `different' from the stock of native productive inputs. The available evidence suggests that the economic benefits from immigration for the United States are small, on the order of $6 billion and almost certainly less than $20 billion annually.  These gains, however, could be increased considerably if the United States pursued an immigration policy which attracted a more skilled immigrant flow.
ER  -