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 of a specific country. As of recently, economic assimilation has slowed down between the US and Mexico in recent years for two reasons. The reason one is that the tracking of immigration waves from census to census doesn’t seize the catch-up process correctly. The second reason is that the tracking exercises reveal that recent waves of immigration are not acquiring valuable skills at the same rate as earlier waves did. Beyond the short-term effects of economic and social impacts of immigration, there are long ones too.
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