PUP-3002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 40: Green Card Marriage, Illegal Entry
5 Apr 2018
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Immigrants with white-collar skills are much less likely to be on welfare than americans born in the us. Refugee groups tend to exhibit much higher rates of welfare participation. In 2002, about 22% of all immigrant households received some type of welfare, while only about 15% of non-immigrant households received welfare. Borjas (2008) concludes that immigration is a net wash for the u. s. economy; not very significant. Impact of 1980-2000 immigrant influx for us wages; immigration lowered the wage of native workers, particularly of those with the least education. Wages fell by 3% for the average worker. There is considerable ethnic diversity in the us yet only minor ethnic conflict. Communities often hold on to key aspects of cultural diversity/uniqueness. More often than not, such enclaves tend to still have be reasonably assimilated. A little over 40% of mexican immigrants in the us for less than five years spoke only spanish in 2000.
