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Suggested Citation:"Index." National Research Council. 1998. The Immigration Debate: Studies on the Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of Immigration. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5985.
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Index

A

Age-mediated effects

cost-benefit analysis of fiscal impacts, 22-25

duration of immigrant residency, 303

employment rates across female cohorts, 264, 266

fertility patterns across female cohorts, 249-253

fiscal impacts of immigration, 3, 39-44

household consumption/revenues (California), 156-157, 158-159, 161

household consumption/revenues (New Jersey), 77-80, 81, 90-91

labor market outcomes across female cohorts, 249-253

no fiscal impact of population growth, 27-28

risk of criminal behavior, 370, 375, 381

use of government services, 52

See also Generational modeling

Ages of immigrants, 42, 45

California household characteristics, 133-136

distribution of arriving cohorts, 40-41

historical patterns, 294-295, 299-301

New Jersey household data, 73-75

Aggregate production function, 317-319

Agricultural workers, 310-311

Aid to Families with Dependent Children California government expenditures , 141, 164

New Jersey government expenditures, 101-102, 103

Alcohol use/abuse, 369

Arizona, 413

Phoenix, 397-399

Asian immigrants, 5

in California, 121, 133, 137-140, 141, 151, 158

distribution patterns, 389-392

employment rates across cohorts, 271, 275

New Jersey household fiscal impacts, 81, 82, 85-86

New Jersey sociodemographic data, 73, 75, 77

trends among women, 242

Assimilation

criminal behavior and, 370, 383-384

female immigrants, 9

historical patterns, 292

labor market outcomes across female cohorts, 249-253, 260-261, 265, 270-271, 275-276, 286

labor market outcomes across male cohorts, 270-271

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B

Beneficiary societies, 342-343

Bias and discrimination

immigrant risk of imprisonment, 375-376

internal migration and, 404, 424

Bilingual education, 97, 121, 191

Border state crime rates, 378-380

C

California, 3-4, 5-6

distribution of government benefits, 150-153, 175-178

fiscal impacts of immigration, 121-122, 153-168

fiscal impacts research, methodology and data sources, 122-128, 168 -178

government expenditures, 131

government revenues, 128-130, 141-150, 168-175

household characteristics, 131-141, 167-168

immigrant/native tax revenues, 121, 141-150

immigrant population, 120-121

internal migration patterns, 392-393, 394-397, 404, 407, 413, 416, 417, 419-423

Los Angeles, 404, 424-425

patterns of immigration, 120

politics of immigration, 121

San Francisco, 404

significance of, in immigration analysis, 120

Canadian immigrants. See European/Canadian immigrants

Capital-labor ratio, 320-322, 326

Children of immigrants fiscal impacts modeling, 184-185

See also Generational modeling

Colombia, 374-375, 376-377

Colorado, 393

Denver, 399

Commission on Immigration Reform, 1

Consumption behavior demand side modeling, 218

fiscal impacts of immigration, 32-33, 61

of immigrants, 54-55

Corporate sector, 5

Cost-benefit analysis

identifying beneficiaries, 72

intergovernmental modeling, 25-27

multiperiod-analysis, 22-25

theoretical model, 20-22

Countries of origin

criminality research, 370-371

destination patterns and, 390, 412, 425

distribution in prisons, 373-375

employment rates across female cohorts, 261-263

employment rates across female immigrant cohorts, 271

trends, 239

trends among women, 241-242

See also Ethnicity;

specific country or region

Criminal activity, 2, 11

acculturation effects, 370, 383-384

age-mediated risk, 370, 375, 381

arrest rates correlated with immigration rates, 372

in border states, 378-380

challenges to research, 11, 368, 375, 382

costs of incarceration, 177-178

data sources, 368, 372-373, 380-381

detention before trial, 376

drug use among immigrants and, 376-378

early research, 369-371

immigrant group heterogeneity and, 374

immigrant victimization, 382

implications of fertility patterns, 382, 383, 384-385

New York homicide rate, 369-370, 372

number of incarcerated immigrants, 367

organized crime, 371

projections, 382, 383-385

public concern over time, 367-368, 371-372, 378

risk for, 381-382

risk of imprisonment, 375-376

turn of the century immigration law, 368-369

Cross-sectional analysis

concurrent descendants formulation, 184-185

defining concurrent descendants, 186-187, 200

estimating expenditures and revenues, 187-192, 201-204

fiscal impacts (1994-1995), 192-201

fiscal impacts of concurrent descendants, 192-199

immigrant household fiscal impacts, 197-199

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immigrant household formulation, 184

immigrant-only fiscal impacts, 197-199

immigrant-only formulation, 184

labor market outcomes for female cohorts, 258-260

limitations, 185

rationale, 7, 184, 199-200

research base, 185-186

vs. longitudinal study, 199, 200-201

Cuba, 375

Cultural factors in education, 55-56

D

Demand side modeling, 218

Deportation, 367

Disabled persons, 106-107

Dominican Republic, 375, 376-377

Drug trade and use, 376-378, 381

Duration of residency, 290, 302-305

E

Economic growth

aggregate production function, 317-319

capital-labor ratio, 320-322, 326

defining, 314-315

economies of scale, 328-330

effects on immigration, 290, 305-307

historical patterns, 10

historical supply of human capital, 330-331

immigration effects, 291, 306, 316, 333-334

immigration-related mechanisms of, 10, 291

innovation and invention, 326-328

internal migration patterns, 394, 397, 399

labor force participation of immigrants, 319-320

as labor productivity, 315

measuring immigrant effects, 316-319

physical capital formation, 322-325

upward mobility of immigrants, 350

Economies of scale, 328-330

Education spending

calculating household consumption, 96-100

California, 131, 152, 175-177

as income redistribution, 347-349

1994-1995, 191

Educational attainments, 11

among female immigrant cohorts, 243, 254

California household characteristics, 137-140

cultural factors, 55-56

employment rates across female cohorts, 263, 266, 268-269

fiscal impacts of population growth, 37-39, 46-48, 61

future fiscal inflows from, 61

immigrant destination patterns and, 390

internal migration patterns, 401-404, 406

international factor price convergence, 222

multi-period analysis of fiscal effects, 26

parental factors, 56

trends, 47

wage levels across female immigrant cohorts, 275-276, 277

Educational quality, 38-39

El Salvador, 374-375

Employment-based preferences, 51-52

Employment counseling/training, 104-106

Ethnicity, 5

educational system participation, 347-348

employment rates across female cohorts, 261-263, 271

sociodemographic variation among New Jersey immigrants, 73-77

socioeconomic disparities in high-immigration areas, 425

wage levels across female cohorts, 275-276, 277, 278, 280

See also Countries of origin

Eugenics movement, 369

European/Canadian immigrants, 5

in California, 133, 137-140, 150, 157-158

macroeconomic models, 306, 307

New Jersey household fiscal impacts, 77, 80, 81, 86

New Jersey sociodemographic data, 73, 75, 77

trends among women, 242

F

Factor price equalization, 8, 210

Family reunification, 45, 389

Family structure and functioning

across female immigrant cohorts, 246, 255-258

California household characteristics, 136, 167

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education outcomes, 55-56

fertility patterns, 349-350, 383, 384-385

fiscal impacts, 45-46

New Jersey household fiscal impacts, 81-82

Female immigrants, 1-2

assimilation effects in labor market outcomes, 249-253, 260-261, 265, 275, 286

census data (1980 and 1990), 247-241

changes across cohorts, 247-249

country of origin trends, 241-242

economic assimilation, 9, 264

educational attainments, 347

educational attainments across cohorts, 243, 254

employment and wage patterns, 9-10

employment rate across cohorts, 243, 249-251, 260-275, 281-286

female-headed households, 52, 53, 82-83, 86

fertility outcomes across cohorts, 246, 248, 255-258

historical patterns, 10, 290, 300-301

human capital variables, 243

labor market outcomes, 239-240

labor market outcomes across cohorts, 243-247, 248, 249-253, 281-287

language skills across cohorts, 243, 254-255

marital status changes across cohorts, 246, 248, 255

research base, 239

wage levels across cohorts, 243-246, 249, 252-253, 275-280

Fiscal impacts of immigration

age-mediated differences, 40-44

California case study, 3-4, 5-6, 121-178

consumption and savings patterns, 32-33

cost-benefit analysis, 20-27

cross-sectional analysis, 7, 184-186, 192-201

effects of immigrant characteristics, 39-40

ethnic variation, 5

general equilibrium modeling, 68-69

generational modeling, 6-7, 15

geographic concentration, 3-4, 11-12, 56-57

historical analysis, 10-11

household-level analysis, 4, 5-6, 66, 69, 87-88

immigrant vs. native households (California), 152-168

immigrant vs. native households (New Jersey), 87, 168

income distribution changes, 334-349

increasing returns to scale, effects of, 30, 60-61, 216-217

legal status of immigrants, 71-72

on local government, 25-27, 68

modeling education effects, 37-39

modeling international trade, 209-219

neutrality model, 27-29, 60

New Jersey case study, 3-5, 6, 69-116

1994-1995, 186, 192-199

nonuniform increases in age groups, 34-37

research base, 2-3, 57-62, 66-69

research design, 3, 6-7, 13-14, 183-186

skill level of immigrants, 33-34, 46-48

theoretical framework for assessing, 2, 3, 14-19, 39-40

top-down vs. bottom-up modeling, 71, 122-123

wage patterns, 48-51

Florida, 191, 399

internal migration patterns, 393, 413

Miami, 397, 404

G

General equilibrium modeling, 68-69

international trade, 208-219

Generational modeling, 6-7

concurrent descendants formulation, 184-185, 186, 192-197, 200-201

educational effects on fiscal impacts, 37-39

fiscal impacts (1994-1995), 192-201

fiscal impacts of immigrant children, 184-185

limitations of cross-sectional approaches, 184-185

local government fiscal modeling, 26

long-run general equilibrium models, 208.

See also specific model

longitudinal, 199, 200-201

multi-period cost-benefit analysis of fiscal impacts, 22-25

nonuniform population growth, fiscal effects of 34-37

theoretical framework, 15

Geographic distribution, 11-12

concentration of immigrants, 389-392, 423-424

federal compensation to high immigration states, 197

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fiscal impacts, 3-6, 57, 194-197

historical wage differentials, 337-339

internal migration, 12

metropolitan patterns, 394-399

modeling out-migration from high-immigration areas, 413, 416-417, 419-423

patterns, 56-57, 399-401

socioeconomic disparities in high-immigration areas, 425

state trends, 392-394

wage and labor differences, 11-12

See also Internal migration;

specific U.S. state

Georgia, 393, 413

Atlanta, 399

Government services, consumption of

California households, 126-127, 140-141, 150-153, 175-178

California immigrants, 121

cost-benefit analysis, 20-22

family composition factors, 45-46

fiscal impacts of immigration, 3, 60-62

historical patterns, 10-11, 291, 340-343

household level, 5-6

immigrant patterns, 43, 67-68

immigrant skill levels and, 52-54

native-born households, 5-6, 52-54

New Jersey households, 77-86, 93-108

research methodology, 13-14

theoretical model, 15-16

trends in eligibility, 13

Government spending

allocation to households, 70, 89-93

California, 121, 131, 175-178

characteristics of immigrant groups as factor in, 55, 167-168

cost-benefit analysis, 20-22, 25-27

cross-sectional analysis, 201-204

education, 55-56, 77, 80, 347-349

education effects on fiscal impact, 37-39

federal compensation to high immigration states, 197

fiscal impacts of immigration (1994-1995), 192-201

future fiscal inflows from, 61-62

historical income redistribution through social spending, 339-349

immigrant age-mediated effects, 43-46

intergovernmental externalities, 27

intergovernmental transfers, 26-27

investments, 18

multi-period analysis, 22-25

1994-1995, 187-192

old-age support, 345-347

in penal system, 367

public debt management, 19, 30, 187, 188-189

on public goods and services, 16-18, 30-32, 60, 70, 187, 188

theoretical model, 16-19

on transfers, 18-19, 187, 189-191

variation in marginal cost of public services, 30-32

See also Government services, consumption of;

Tax payments

Guatemala, 374-375

H

Heckscher-Olin model of international trade, 211-215

High-skilled labor

in fiscal impacts of population growth, 33-34

historical patterns, 312-313

See also Skill levels of immigrants

High education

allocation of costs/benefits (California), 177

allocation of costs/benefits (New Jersey), 97-100

Hispanic immigrants

criminal activity, 378-379

destination patterns, 390-392

language skills, 48

in prisons, 373-375, 376-378

See also Latin American immigrants

Historical developments, 10-11

African American internal migration, 337

age of immigrants, 42

assimilation of immigrants, 292

capital-labor ratio, 320-322, 326

characteristics of immigrants, 290-291

concerns about criminality and immigration, 367-368, 371-372

distribution of social spending, 339-349

duration of immigrant stay, 302-305

economic growth effects of immigration, 291

economic mobility of immigrants, 350

geographic distribution of immigrants, 56

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human capital mix of immigrants, 47

immigrant demography, 299-301

immigrant-native wage differentials, 334-339

immigrant savings behavior, 323-325 291-292, 334

income distribution effects of immigration, interpretation of, 289-290

labor force participation of immigrants, 319-320

magnitude of immigration, 290, 292-298

occupations of arriving immigrants, 310-313

physical capital formation, 322-326

relevance to policymaking, 350-352

research base, 289

skills of immigrants, 290-291, 307-310

supply of human capital, 330-331

wage patterns, 48-51, 331-334

Home ownership, 326, 348

Household-level analysis, 5-6

allocation of costs and benefits, 72

allocation of government expenditures and revenues, 70-71, 88-116

California data, 123-125, 131-141

consumption of government services, 5-6, 66-67, 150-153

cross-sectional, 184

educational costs of immigration, 122, 152

female-headed households, 52, 53, 82-83, 86

fiscal impact studies, 4, 5, 66, 69

fiscal impacts of immigration (California), 122

fiscal impacts of immigration (New Jersey), 80-83, 84-86

future research, 87-88

generational modeling, 6-7

immigrant vs. native fiscal impacts, 87, 153-168

legal status issues, 71-72

local government spending (New Jersey), 83-84

methodology, 69, 70-72

New Jersey data, 72-77

rationale, 69-70

significance of, 68

state government spending (New Jersey), 77-80

tax revenues (California), 125-126, 128-130, 141-150

tax revenues (New Jersey), 109-112, 115-116

I

Illegal immigrants, 302, 373

arrest and prosecution, 375-376

fiscal impact modeling, 71-72

tax payments, 68

Illinois

Chicago, 370, 397, 404

internal migration patterns, 392-393, 413, 416

Immigration Reform and Control Act, 293, 301

Incentives to migrate

factor price equalization model, 210

general equilibrium models of international trade, 209-219

immigrant skill linkage, 308

international factor price convergence, 219-223

metropolitan migration patterns, 397

opportunities for innovation, 327

out-migration from high-immigration areas, 401-407

policy effects, 290, 305

push-pull model, 308, 401, 424

state internal migration patterns, 392-394

U.S. economic conditions, 290, 305-307

Income

California households, 140, 159, 167

general effects of immigration, 192

immigration-related redistribution, 334-337

New Jersey immigrant households, 75-77

redistribution through social spending, 339-349

theoretical model, 15-16

See also Wages

Innovation, 326-328

Intergovernmental transfers, 26-27

Internal migration, 2

African Americans, 292, 337

concentration of immigrants, 389-392

demographic variables, 419-420

economic conditions and, 394, 397, 399

educational attainments and, 401-404, 406

from high-immigration areas, 401-407

immigration and, 12

impact analysis, 407-413, 416-417, 419-423

implications, 388, 424-428

labor market effects, 389

local government effects, 25-26

metropolitan patterns, 394-399

motivations, 423-424

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nested logit model analysis, 410-413, 428-432

patterns, 388-389, 392, 401

policy issues, 410

prejudice and, 404, 424

regional and nonmetro, 399

spillover effects, 420-423

state trends, 392-394

International trade, 8

demand side models, 218

factor content analysis, 224-230

factor price equalization, 8, 210

general equilibrium models, 208-219

Heckscher-Olin model, 211-215

immigration surplus in two-goods economy, 207-208

increasing returns to scale, 216-217

migration linkages, 206, 223-234

modified factor price equalization model, 213-215

policymaking, 231-233

Ricardian model, 215-216

wage levels and, 8-9, 223-234

J

Jamaica, 374-375

L

Labor markets, 8

capital-labor ratio, 320-322

capital ownership by workers, 321-322

economic growth-immigration linkages, 291

employment-based immigration policy, 51-52

employment rates across female cohorts, 243, 249-251, 260-275, 281 -286

employment rates across male cohorts, 269-270, 282-286

geographic variation, 11-12

historical participation of immigrants, 319-320

historical supply of human capital, 330-331

historical wage-immigration linkages, 331-334

immigrant outcomes, 48-51

immigration surplus in two-goods economy, 207-208

impacts of immigration, 2

increasing returns to scale, 216-217

internal migration of less-skilled workers, 407-413, 416-417, 419-423, 425

macroeconomic models of immigration, 306, 307

occupational distribution of arriving immigrants, 50-51

outcomes for immigrant men, 282-286

outcomes for immigrant women, 9-10, 239-240

productivity, 315, 333

upward mobility of immigrants, 350

wage levels across female cohorts, 243-246, 249, 252-253, 275-280, 286

wage-trade linkages, 223-234

wages and, 8-9

Language skills, 48

among female immigrant cohorts, 243, 254-255

bilingual education, 97, 121, 191

employment rates across female cohorts, 263-264, 266-268

Latin American immigrants, 5

in California, 121, 133, 136, 137, 140, 141, 143, 149, 150-151, 158, 163

distribution patterns, 389-392

New Jersey household fiscal impacts, 77-80, 81-82, 86

New Jersey sociodemographic data, 75, 77

in prisons, 373

trends among women, 242

See also Hispanic immigrants

Local government

cost-benefit modeling, 25-27

expense allocation to households, 70

fiscal impacts of immigration, 68, 83-86, 167, 192-193

revenues (California), 130

revenues (New Jersey), 115-116

spending among households (New Jersey), 83-86, 112-115

Longitudinal studies, 2, 6-7, 183-184

vs. cross-sectional analysis, 199, 200-201

M

Marital status

among female immigrant cohorts, 246, 248, 255

employment rates across female immigrant cohorts, 264, 268

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immigration statistics, 45-46

wage levels across female immigrant cohorts, 275-276, 277

Massachusetts

Boston, 370, 397

internal migration patterns, 393, 413

Medicaid, 78-80, 100-103

California consumption/expenditures, 141

New Jersey government expenditures, 100-101

1994-1995 consumption/expenditures, 191

Medical care

California government expenditures, 131

pharmaceutical assistance, 103-104

Medicare, California consumption/expenditures, 131, 140, 163, 164-165

Mexico

incarcerated immigrants from, 373, 374-375, 381-382

labor market outcomes across emigrant cohorts, 271, 275, 280, 286

migration-trade linkage, 206

Migrant workers, 302

Mortality

determinants of, 40-41

modeling fiscal impacts of immigration, 42-43

N

Natives

consumption of government services, 5-6, 52-54

fertility patterns, 255-258, 349-350

fiscal impacts (California), 141-168

fiscal impacts (New Jersey), 77-86

household characteristics (California), 133, 136, 137, 140-141

incarceration rate, 374

internal migration patterns, 388-389

labor force participation, 319-320

labor market outcomes for women, 266, 268-269

occupational skills, 291, 309-314

out-migration from high-immigration areas, 401-413

out-migration from high-immigration states, 416-417, 419-423

public assistance consumption, 67

savings and consumption patterns, 54-55, 325

taxes paid, 5-6

Nested logit model analysis, 410-413, 428-432

Nevada, 413

Las Vegas, 397-399

New Jersey, 3-5, 6

fiscal impacts of immigration, 68, 69, 168

fiscal impacts research, methodology, and data sources, 86-116

internal migration patterns, 392-393, 407

local expenditures, 112-115

local level fiscal impacts of immigration, 83-86

local revenues, 115-116

sociodemographics of immigrant population, 72-77

state expenditures, 93-108

state level fiscal impacts of immigration, 77-83

state revenues, 109-112

New York

homicide rate, 369-370, 372

internal migration patterns, 392-393, 397, 404, 413, 416, 417, 419 -423

North American Free Trade Agreement, 206

North Carolina, 399

Numbers of immigrants

historical patterns, 10, 290, 292-298

illegal, 373

in jails and prisons, 367, 372-373, 381-382

1994-1995, 186-187

as source of population change, 297-298

O

Old-age support, 345-347

Organized crime, 371

P

Penal system

data sources, 372-373, 380-381

detention before trial, 376, 381

distribution of countries of origin, 373-375, 381

immigrant population in, 367, 372-373, 381-382

immigrant risk of imprisonment, 375-376

native population, 374

Pennsylvania, 413

Philadelphia, 370

Pension systems, 345

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Physical capital, 322-325

Policymaking

in California, 121

criminal justice issues, 367, 382

effects on immigration, 290, 305

employment-based preferences, 51-52

federal compensation to high immigration states, 197

historical understanding of immigration effects, 350-352

implications of internal migration, 424-428

internal migration patterns, 410

trade and immigration, 231-233

turn of the century immigration law, 368-369

Population growth

fiscal impact modeling, 27-39

immigration as source of change in, 297-298, 314

theoretical framework for modeling, 14, 27

Portland, Oregon, 397-399

Poverty across female immigrant cohorts, 246

Productivity, 315, 333

Prohibition, 369

Property taxes, 107, 147-148, 171-173, 190-191

Public perception and understanding, 404

concerns about immigrant crime, 367-369, 371-372, 378

R

Remigration

historical patterns, 302-305, 306

modeling fiscal effects of immigrants, 41, 42-43

Ricardian model of international trade, 215-216

S

Savings behavior

capital ownership by workers, 321-322

fiscal impacts of immigration, 32-33, 61

generational modeling, 15

home ownership trends, 326

immigrant patterns, 323-325

of immigrants, 54-55

physical capital formation, 322-325

Self-employment, 50, 325

Skill levels of immigrants, 46

consumption of government services and, 52-54

destination patterns and, 390, 412

general equilibrium models of international trade, 209-219

historical trend, 290-291, 308-314

internal migration of low-skilled workers, 409-410

internal migration patterns, 388-389, 404

language fluency, 48

motivation to migrate and, 308

occupational distribution, 50-51, 313-314

occupations on arrival, 310-313

policy issues, 307-308

relative to natives, 291, 309-310

trends, 239

U.S. policy, 51-52

See also Educational attainments;

High-skilled labor;

Unskilled labor

Social Security, 345-347

California consumption/expenditures, 140-141, 143-144, 150, 163, 164-165

immigrant age distribution and, 43

immigrant consumption, 43

1994-1995 consumption/expenditures, 189-190

Supplemental Security Income

California government expenditures, 141, 164

New Jersey government expenditures, 102-103

T

Tax payments, 3

California households, 125-126, 128-130, 141-150, 168-175

California immigrants, 121

cost-benefit analysis of fiscal impacts, 20-22

cross-sectional analysis, 187-192, 201-204

family composition factors, 45-46

fiscal impacts of immigrants (1994-1995), 192-201

historical effects of immigration, 11

immigrant vs. native households, 5-6, 68

multi-period analysis, 23-24

New Jersey households, 80-82, 90, 91, 109-112, 115-116

obstacles to modeling, 185

population growth modeling, 30, 32-33

research methodology, 13-14

theoretical model, 15-16, 19, 27

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transfers, 18-19

worker skill level, multi-period analysis, 33-34

Technological innovation and invention, 326-328

Tennessee, 399

Texas

Austin, 399

El Paso, 376, 378

Houston, 404

internal migration patterns, 392-393, 394, 397, 407, 413, 416

Tourism, 5

Transfer payments, 18-19

age-mediated effects, 43-44

cost-benefit analysis, 20

educational services, 347-349

family composition correlated with, 45-46

income distribution effects of immigration, 291-292, 334

intergovernmental, 26-27

multi-period analysis, 22-23

1994-1995, 187

old-age support programs, 345-347

through social spending, 339-345

uneven distribution of immigration effects, 207

U

Unskilled labor

elasticity of demand, 11-12

in fiscal impacts of population growth, 33-34

geographic variation, 11-12

occupations of arriving immigrants, 310

wage-trade linkage, 223

See also Skill levels of immigrants

W

Wages

across female immigrant cohorts, 243-246, 249, 252-253, 275-281

among male immigrant cohorts, 277-278

capital-labor ratio, 320-321

cohort and assimilation effects, 258-259

estimating, for female immigrants, 241

factor price equilization model, 210

female immigrants, 9-10

general effects of immigration, 192, 291-292

geographic variation, 12

Heckscher-Olin model of international trade, 211-215

immigrant patterns, 48-51

immigration effects, 315, 316, 331-334

immigration-related inequality, 334-339

international factor price convergence, 219-223

international trade and, 8

labor markets and, 8-9

measuring immigrant effects, 317

migration-trade linkage, 206-207, 223-234

regional variation, 337-339

trade vs. immigration effects, 230-231

U.S. trends, 206-207

See also Income

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