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Science 6 February 1987:
Vol. 235. no. 4789, pp. 645 - 651
DOI: 10.1126/science.235.4789.645
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The Economic Consequences of Immigration

GEORGE J. BORJAS 1 and MARTA TIENDA 2

1 Professor of economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
2 Professor of sociology and rural sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, and a research affiliate of the Institute for Research on Poverty and the Center for Demography and Ecology.

Available research supports several major conclusions about the economic consequences of immigration. (i) The aggregate impacts of foreign workers on the earnings and employment of native workers are quite small, but differ for selected population subgroups and high ethnic density labor markets. (ii) Immigrants who arrived during the 1970s are less skilled than earlier arrivals, and their earnings will remain substantially below those of natives throughout their working lives. (iii) The evidence on immigrants' receipt of public assistance income is inconclusive.


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