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Immigration Within a US Context: A Drain or Driver of Economic Development?

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Deller, Conroy, and Kures provide insights into the impact of foreign-born immigrants on communities throughout the United States by considering current trends in immigration from a historical policy perspective. The chapter also explores connections between community, social, and economic well-being and measures of immigration including the percent of the current population that is foreign born, the change in foreign-born population, and the share of foreign-born persons who are now nationalized citizens. Deller, Conroy, and Kures conclude with a detailed examination of immigration’s effect on entrepreneurship by estimating a family of models that consider the concentration of immigrants in conjunction with new business formations from the Business Information Tracking System.

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    Specifically, neoclassical frameworks, regardless of stylized complexity, will find that any increase in the supply of labor will place downward pressure on wages.

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Acknowledgements

An earlier version of this study was presented at the 50th Annual Meetings of the Mid-Continent Regional Science Association, Madison, Wisconsin. June 2019.

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    Steven Deller & Tessa Conroy

  2. Center for Community and Economic Development, University of Wisconsin—Madison, Madison, USA

    Matthew Kures

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Deller, S., Conroy, T., Kures, M. (2021). Immigration Within a US Context: A Drain or Driver of Economic Development?. In: Kourtit, K., Newbold, B., Nijkamp, P., Partridge, M. (eds) The Economic Geography of Cross-Border Migration. Footprints of Regional Science(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48291-6_5

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