...The Economic Standpoints of Immigrant Workers, Both Illegal and Legal The topic of immigration from an economic standpoint, whether it be legal or illegal, is a tricky one. Some economists cannot agree on even just a simple question of whether or not this immigration has a positive or negative impact on American workers. Immigration does have some sort of impact on the economy of America, but whether it be positive or negative is based on the economist's standpoint. On one side of the argument, some economists are under the impression that immigrants, mainly illegal immigrants, take the jobs of Americans. On the other side of the coin, some economists believe that immigrants actually help America's workforce. The bottom line is, no matter what standpoint one chooses to view this topic, one is forced to conclude that the economics of immigrant workers is a vast one, and an easy decision can often not be made quickly. Some economists believe that immigration, both legal and illegal, directly correlates to a weaker workforce and a negative impact on America's economy. This goes especially with the pay offered to less-skilled workers. As competition increases between less-skilled workers, Americans find more and more that immigrant workers work for much less than the average worker in America does. This is increasingly forcing some Americans to compete with workers willing to accept lower wages, so they must either accept lower wages as well, or be forced to go without....
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...[pic] Университет за Национално и Световно Стопанство Направление: Икономика с преподаване на Английски език КУРСОВА РАБОТА тема : Economic immigration: the case of Spain Изготвил: Венелина Цветанова Каменова Фак. Ном.: 10114103 Преподавател: Кръстьо Петков 2010 година Съдържание Why did I choose this topic? I. Introduction 1. The term immigration 1.1 The term immigration and the general theories behind it 1.2. Economic migrant 2. Global immigration 3. Immigration in Europe 1. Immigration within Europe 2. Immigration from outside of Europe II. The case of Spain 1. Immigration laws and policies in Spain 2. Main countries from where people emigrate to Spain 1. Bulgarians in Spain 3. Main reasons for choosing Spain III. Conclusion The data used in this project is from year 2005. Why did I choose this topic? Watching half of my classmates applying in foreign universities and many of my friends and family choosing to live abroad in order to have “better life” made me wonder what the reasons behind the migrations are. I was interested in the scientific explanation behind the migration processes. This paper gave me the opportunity to understand the incentives behind people’s decisions and the main reasons, pushing people from our own country. And even if I didn’t choose the case of Spain for my topic it...
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...Immigration is an Economic Benefit to the Host Country Name: Cindy Winata Student ID: 12413091 Professor: Vyas Utpal Immigration is an Economic Benefit to the Host Country Is immigration an economic benefit to the host country? As the world globalizes, this issue has become a topic of a debate in recent years. The inflow of immigrants may bring a positive effect or negative effect to the destined country. However, in some countries like the United States, their economic development has become dependent on immigrants. As Marco Rubio once said, “Americans believe in the value of immigration”. Immigration has made and is making favorable contribution in term of economy to the host country. Immigrants have benefited the U.S economy by filling in less-skilled job vacancies, increasing native’s wages and labor productivity, and lastly driving innovation. Immigrant Workers Fill the Growing Number of Job Vacancies Immigration plays an important role in filling in the less-skilled jobs vacancies in United States. The main reason why the United States has become significantly reliant on immigrants is because of the growing shortage of workers that are willing to do the less-skilled jobs. In recent years, American worker’s educational level has improved dramatically, thus result in the growing number of less-skilled jobs in which U.S-born workers are available. Less-skilled immigrants are needed to fill in occupations such as construction, farming, fishing, food processing, food...
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...The Economic Impact of Immigration Within Canada There has been an appeal in immigrating to Canada ever since the early 1800’s, but only in the past seventy years have we seen drastic changes in domestic immigration law and policy. Most notably Canada has received recognition for its Immigration Act of 1976 as well as our current Immigration and Refugee Protection Act from 2002. Canadian immigration is still evolving today and currently Canada is known as a country with a broad immigration policy that is reflected in the countries ethnic diversity. Policy goals, selectivity and trade are three prominent aspects of Canadian immigration that I have found compelling journal articles written on. Although every aspect of immigration has its differences, they all similarly share a united end common goal of further benefiting Canada. Economics is a similarity that plays a large role in each aspect and article, from strategically selecting immigrants that will quickly economically assimilate to using immigration to increase trade flow from foreign countries. Although in contrast – the article that I have found to obtain the most compelling argument on Canadian immigration policy is the one that disagrees with using immigration solely for economic means, it implicitly states that immigration policy should not solely be seen in economic benefits but that it should be seen as primarily a cultural, social and humanitarian policy opposed to an economic one. In the first article I examined...
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...Immigration is an Economic Benefit to the Host Country Name: Cindy Winata Student ID: 12413091 Professor: Vyas Utpal Immigration is an Economic Benefit to the Host Country Is immigration an economic benefit to the host country? As the world globalizes, this issue has become a topic of a debate in recent years. The inflow of immigrants may bring a positive effect or negative effect to the destined country. However, in some countries like the United States, their economic development has become dependent on immigrants. As Marco Rubio once said, “Americans believe in the value of immigrationâ€. Immigration has made and is making favorable contribution in term of economy to the host country. Immigrants have benefited the U.S economy by filling in less-skilled job vacancies, increasing native’s wages and labor productivity, and lastly driving innovation. Immigrant Workers Fill the Growing Number of Job Vacancies Immigration plays an important role in filling in the less-skilled jobs vacancies in United States. The main reason why the United States has become significantly reliant on immigrants is because of the growing shortage of workers that are willing to do the less-skilled jobs. In recent years, American worker’s educational level has improved dramatically, thus result in the growing number of less-skilled jobs in which U.S-born workers are available. Less-skilled immigrants are needed to fill in occupations such as construction, farming, fishing, food processing...
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...College isn't for everyone - Education USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), May, 2003 by W.J. Reeves APPROXIMATELY 15,000,000 Americans are enrolled in college, although about half of them probably shouldn't be! During the junior year of high school, students and, to a greater extent, their parents start to fret about getting the teenager into a college. Most of these students are unable to be admitted to first-rate schools like Williams College or the Ivy League institutions, but they and their parents believe that a college education, from any school, is necessary to succeed in the 21st century. However, Edward E. Gordon reports in an article entitled "Creating Tomorrow's Work Force" (The Futurist, August, 2000) that 70% of the workers in the coming decades will not need a four-year college degree, but, rather, an associate degree from a community college or some type of technical certificate. Thus, moms and dads, who foot the bill, delude themselves that going to any four-year college will make their sons and daughters literate, analytical, culturally aware, technologically advanced, and therefore employable. In America today, there exists a goal that the majority of the nation's youth should go to college and that access should be the byword for higher education. On the surface, this sounds like a great idea; in reality, it is not. Access in its most-extreme form--open admissions--was instituted at The City University of New York during the turmoil...
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...The Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013 (S.744) is an immigration reform bill introduced by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) in the United States Senate [1] and co-sponsored by the other seven members of the "Gang of Eight" a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators who wrote and negotiated the bill. It was introduced into the United States Senate of the 113th United States Congress on April 16, 2013. The Senate Judiciary Committee held hearings on the bill in April 2013.[2] The bill was voted out of Committee on May 21, 2013 and was introduced in Senate.[3] On June 27, 2013, the Senate passed this bill 68-32. Whether the United States House of Representatives will even consider it is uncertain. The bill would make it possible for many undocumented immigrants to gain legal status and eventually citizenship. It would also make the border more secure by adding up to 40,000 border patrol agents. It also advances talent-based immigration through a points-based immigration system. New visas have been proposed in this legislation, including a visa for entrepreneurs and a W visa.[4] It also proposes new restrictions on H1B visa program to prevent its abuse and additional visas/green-cards for students with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) degrees from U.S. institutions. The bill also includes a $1.5 billion youth jobs program and repeals the Diversity Visa Lottery in favor of prospective legal immigrants who are already in...
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...I. Introduction a. Audience Hook: “Immigration law and policy cannot be divorced from issues of race, national origin, ethnicity and color” (Dobkin, 2009). b. Thesis Statement: Research will show that immigration policies are ineffective because of stereotyping, social profiling, and area economics. c. Preview of Main points: i. Stereotypes and racial profiling has shaped immigration policies in America. ii. The perception of immigration can vary from area to area based on the economic status of the populace and because of this it can influence the content of immigration policies. II. Stereotypes and racial profiling has shaped immigration policies in America. Show visual aid (Martinez Jr., 2010) a. Arizona has placed the power of checking individuals for immigration status in the hands of police, which has allowed for racial profiling and oppression of not only U.S. citizens but also those that are new immigrants to America (Campbell, 2011). b. Some of the common misconceptions about immigrants are the threat that they pose to U.S. jobs, when it comes to U.S. citizens. i. Immigrant workers do pose a threat to U.S. jobs in the sense that they are much more mobile. 1. Hanson shows that low skilled immigrant workers are willing to go where the work is, whereas the U.S. native low skilled workers are less likely to pick up and move (Hanson, 2012). c. Molina points out, that a stereotype that exist about Mexicans, are that they are disease carriers...
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...1007/s00148-005-0015-1 ORIGIN AL PAPER Timothy J. Hatton Explaining trends in UK immigration Received: 11 February 2004 / Accepted: 6 December 2004 / Published online: 22 November 2005 © Springer-Verlag 2005 Abstract Since the 1970s Britain has gone from being a country of net emigration to one of net immigration, with a trend increase in immigration of more than 100,000 per year. This paper represents the first attempt to model the variations in net migration for British and for foreign citizens, across countries and over time. A simple economic model, which includes the selection effects of differing income distributions at home and abroad, largely accounts for the variations in the data. The results suggest that although improved economic performance in the UK relative to overseas has tended to increase immigration, rising UK inequality has had an even larger effect. Immigration policies at home and abroad have also increased net immigration, particularly in the 1990s. Keywords Immigration . Emigration . Immigration policy JEL Classification F22 . J61 . J78 1 Introduction In the last 20 years the UK has become a country of net immigration. During the 1960s and 1970s, emigration exceeded immigration so that net immigration was persistently negative. Since then net immigration has progressively increased. The best available measure of long-term trends indicates an increase in the annual net immigration from −24 thousand in the early 1970s to 89 thousand in the late 1990s —a total...
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...British,Australia and etc .These countries share a common feature,the population structure of all those immigration countries is mainly constituted by two parts the national citizen and immigration.This phenomenon caused a complex social relationship. It benefits the economic,industry,agriculture and construction of immigrate countries.However,the large-scale immigration also brings about many problems such as religion conflicts,educational inbalance and violent crime.This essay will discuss the advantages and disadvantages for a large-scale immigration country from economic and social perspectives. The economic impact of immigration has been intensively studied. Whatever the source of immigration, It has an important impact on the mainly three area of economic in immigration countries -the the labour market, the public purse and economic growth.First of all immigrants accounted for 47persent of the increase in the workforce in the United States and 70persent in Europe over the past ten years. Immigrants fill important niches both in fast-growing and declining sectors of the economy.Secondly In the public purse part Immigrants contribute more in taxes and social contributions than they receive in benefits and employment is the single biggest determinant of net fiscal contribution of immigrants. Finally immigration boosts the working-age population which benefits economic growth of countries(OECD,2014). Analysis these impacts is very necessary, designing the policies in some...
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...In today’s world we face a big problem. The ongoing problem is what are we going to do about illegal immigrants. According to Oxford English Dictionary, immigration is “the action of immigrating; entrance into a country for the purpose of settling there” (OED). Immigration is a very hot topic in the United States today. There have been many debates and discussions about the issue in regards to if immigration is beneficial to our country or if it’s not. There are millions of illegal immigrants in the country today. Many people think that these immigrants area big problem for our economy and other factors of the government. In reality these people have been doing the opposite. Immigration is all over the country and you have more than likely encountered some before. Immigration is a very important topic for a reason. The United States has been running well because of it but then again these immigrants are stealing many Americans jobs to an extent. There are many positive benefits that come from immigration. These include an increase in demand, more investment, increased operation, and more jobs being taken (Nadadur 1041). These all affect the economy of the United States in a positive way. Demand for jobs is increased because of the incoming flow of people that are looking for jobs. They come to America with the intent of getting a good job and being able to support their family. These jobs might not always be the best jobs but they still get to do more than they could at homeland...
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...development of economic of these countries, as well as bringing to negative effects. In this essay, I will discuss that how influence the economic of developed countries. For example, population of America will be twice in this century. Especially, the number of children increased sharply. So that need as twice as houses, cars, roads, prison, hospitals, schools water treatment facilities and so on. Therefore American needs more nature resource than before. Firstly, immigration helps late Twentieth Century Massachusetts economy in America. More specifically, during in 1970s, as population of Massachusetts move to other place and Massachusetts of birth rate decreased sharply. Massachusetts suffered from urban flight, closing industrial, and so on. However, in 1980s considerable immigrations that come from different countries settled in Massachusetts, which bring a host of labors. Under depressing economy, most of labors can find a job on manufacturing, thereby promoting the development of economy. For instance, much immigration is employed in manufacturing, which in every 100 workers, there are 78 workers in this department. Secondly, immigration that has high-skilled makes a great contribution on the economy of Massachusetts. Comparing with native people who have professionals such as engineers’ physical scientists and computer scientists, over about 2% of foreign worker held these professionals, while less than 1% native people work at these fronts. Moreover, immigration who be university...
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...Corporate Lobbying and Immigration Policies in Canada – Ludovic Rheault – University of Montreal The article examines the issue of whether special interest groups affect the behaviour of politicians and the debate is especially relevant to understand immigration policies. It is stated that the usual suspects behind expansive immigration policies are private firms, who would benefit from depressive impact of foreign labour on wages. The article’s objective is precisely to examine the impact of corporate lobbying on the levels of immigration in Canada. The article’s first argument is that national industries are unequally affected by changes in the skill composition of labour. Rheault states that “rather an advocating an unconditional expansion of immigration levels, the business community is more likely to agree on the desirability of policy tools allowing the selection of migrants with specific skills and backgrounds.” (Rheault, 2013). Rheault focuses on economic permanent immigration (immigrants selected using a point system accounting for educational attainment) and temporary workers (who are selected based on their occupation). Rheault’s argument emphasizes that even if special interests can exert a significant influence on policy makers motivated by re-election, the equilibrium response of governments depends on the complementarity between those two types of immigration. (Rheault, 2013). The idea that businesses play a key role in the shaping of immigration policies has been...
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...important factors that cause international migration flows: economic pressures; social networks and connections between migrant sending and receiving countries; immigration policies; and cultural perceptions people in developing countries have about immigration and immigrant receiving countries. Indicate which of these you believe is the most important and second most important factors and explain why. There are four important factors that cause international migration flow. The most important factor is the economic pressures and second most important is the cultural perceptions people in developing countries have about immigration and immigrant receiving countries. Both these factors are relatively related and linked together. The most important factor that influences migration flows is the economic pressures. People who pursue better wages and a higher standard of living economically motivate most labor migrations. This is generated by the push- pull theory that explains how migrants are pushed to leave the areas of origin because of demographic growth, low standards of living, and lack of economic opportunities (Castles and Miller 22). Migrants are then pulled to move to receiving countries because they are attracted to the demand they have for labor, availability of land, economic opportunities, and political freedoms (Castles and Miller 22). The push-pull factor is one of the main explanations as to why the economic pressures are the biggest factors that influences international...
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...Understanding Pro-Immigration Attitudes in Canada In September 2015, Denmark’s immigration ministry published an advertisement in several newspapers in Lebanon, a country that hosts over one million Syrian refugees, to discourage refugees from coming to Denmark. The ad listed many reasons that portray Denmark as a wrong destination for refugees (Denmark advert in Lebanon, 2015). Although it was not stated explicitly, the message was very clear: refugees are not welcome in Denmark. This negative attitude towards immigrants is not exclusive to Denmark. In fact, most European countries have followed suit and have shown an attitude that ranges from reluctant to hostile. Even in a country like the United States that has been known as a “nation of...
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