In George Borjas’s, ‘We Wanted Workers: Unraveling the Immigration Narrative’ the fifth chapter highlights economic assimilation in regards to immigrants. In short terms, economic assimilation is the amount of time it takes immigrants to close the wage gap with natives… Read moreWe Wanted Workers Chapter 5 Post
Borjas dives into the debate regarding immigration’s impact on the labor market in chapter 7. He starts off by introducing the idea that “Immigrants do the jobs that natives will not do and have little impact on native job opportunities… Read moreERA: We Wanted Workers, Chapter 7
An argument that I found to be prevalent while reading George J. Borjas’ We Wanted Workers first few chapters was the crowd that is attracted to coming to America through immigration. Over the entire history of America there have been… Read moreWe Wanted Workers CH3-4 Reflection
Throughout Chapter 5 of Borjas’ We Wanted Workers, he focuses on the concept of economic assimilation and how this differs from assimilation in other areas of life. Borjas begins by addressing the idea that immigrants who have been in the… Read moreERA We Wanted Workers Ch.5
In chapter seven of George J. Borjas’s We Wanted Workers, George talks about the impact of the labor markets impact with respect to immigrants. In the introduction of this chapter George talks about how immigrants are doing jobs that the… Read moreERA: We Wanted Workers CH7