Thread: George Borjas

Brilliant Harvard economist, expert on labor, and dogged debunker of open borders, pro-illegal immigration mythology.

Homepage:

http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~GBorjas/FullBio.html

Weblog:

http://borjas.typepad.com/

Faculty page, with bibliography:

http://ksgfaculty.harvard.edu/George_Borjas


Detailed study of labor supply and how immigration factors into it:

http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/back504.html

He also writes for National Review, in case in anyone's interested in checking out his essays for that magazine.

He is the antidote to Ben Wattenberg.

The thing about the The Bush Proposal,
he doesnt have to see the effects.

I've been reading his good work for a long time, including his work for the CIS.

Originally Posted by Shapka

Brilliant Harvard economist, expert on labor, and dogged debunker of open borders, pro-illegal immigration mythology.

Homepage:

http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~GBorjas/FullBio.html

Weblog:

http://borjas.typepad.com/

Faculty page, with bibliography:

http://ksgfaculty.harvard.edu/George_Borjas


Detailed study of labor supply and how immigration factors into it:

http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/back504.html

He also writes for National Review, in case in anyone's interested in checking out his essays for that magazine.

He is the antidote to Ben Wattenberg.

Yes, I quote his work all of the time. Mainly references in books by Lou Dobbs and Pat Buchanan. Like that the average American born male loses $1,700 a year due to wage depression brought upon by illegal immigration. And the working poor have their wages depressed by 8% because of illegal immigration. Phillip Martin has also done some good work on the lies about illegals saving us on goods and services. These are the guys who are the respected names on immigration economics. The others are just shills for corporate America and the Wall Street Journal. Borjas wrote a book on immigration economics. I forget the name at the moment, but plan on reading it. {EDIT} Its called Heaven's Door -- it was in one of the links.

The great thing about Professor Borjas is that he has an unquestionable scholarly apparatus he can cite in defense of his conclusions. His assertions are buttressed by mounds of supporting evidence and statistics. The open borders, pro-chain migration crowd has almost no economic data to support their position, and they know it. That's why you don't see real economists put up during debates over amnesty, but WSJ-type hacks who have never learned the scientific method, e.g. Tamar Jacoby.

You will never see a real economist who's in favor of globalization, e.g. Jagdish Bhagwati, defend OUR current immigration policies, i.e. mass chain migration based upon family reunification policies, importation of semi-skilled and unskilled labor, etc... Even hard core, unreconstructed leftists like Paul Krugman admit, if only implicitly, that our current immigration policies are a net deficit and cause significant hardship for the less skilled part of our country's labor pool.