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The National Academies report The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration (Blau and Mackie 2017) summarizes recent trends in immigration numbers and characteristics, summarizes the theory of the impact of immigration on the economy, reaches consensus on central empirical issues, and performs original research on the impact of immigration on federal, state and local budgets. Immigrants are increasingly numerous and educated; increase GDP and GDP growth; have little effect on average native wages and employment; but create both winners and losers among natives. The long-term fiscal impact is positive at the federal level, though negative at the state level due to the costs of educating immigrant children.
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Source Data are from the 2011–2013 March Current Population Surveys
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One of the authors (Blau) chaired the panel while the other (Hunt) was a panel member; see the Appendix for a full list of participants.
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Francine D. Blau and Christopher Mackie, eds. 2017. The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/23550.
James P. Smith and Barry Edmonston, eds. 1997. The New Americans: Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of Immigration. National Research Council. Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/5779.
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Appendix: Panel members, consultants and staff for the NRC report
Appendix: Panel members, consultants and staff for the NRC report
1.1 Panel members
Francine D. Blau (Chair), Department of Economics, Cornell University
Michael Ben-Gad, Department of Economics, City University London
George J. Borjas, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Christian Dustmann, Department of Economics, University College London
Barry Edmonston, Department of Sociology, University of Victoria, BC
Isaac Ehrlich, Department of Economics, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Charles Hirschman, Department of Sociology, University of Washington
Jennifer Hunt, Department of Economics, Rutgers University
Dowell Myers, Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California
Pia M. Orrenius, Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, TX
Jeffrey S. Passel, Senior Demographer, Pew Research Center, Washington, DC
Kim Rueben, Tax Policy Center, Urban Institute, Washington, DC
Marta Tienda, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
Yu Xie, Princeton Institute of International and Regional Studies, Princeton University
1.2 Consultants to the panel
Gretchen Donehower, University of California at Berkeley
Ryan Edwards, Queens College, City University of New York
Sarah Gault, Urban Institute
Julia Gelatt, Urban Institute
1.3 Staff
Christopher Mackie, Study Director
Constance F. Citro, CNSTAT Director
Esha Sinha, Associate Program Officer
Anthony S. Mann, Program Coordinator
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Blau, F.D., Hunt, J. The economic and fiscal consequences of immigration: highlights from the National Academies report. Bus Econ 54, 173–176 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1057/s11369-019-00132-9
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