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Introduction to Immigration Economics

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This introductory chapter emphasizes the complexity of immigration, in contrast to popular labor market model of immigration described in the introduction to Part I above. This chapter discusses a variety of cases of immigration, lists the push, pull, stay, and stay away influences on immigration, outlines a brief history of immigration, and categorizes the different forms of immigration. The complexity of immigration suggests that the simple neoclassical labor market model is not accurate; a broader and more inter-disciplinary approach to studying the economics of immigration is called for.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    As quoted in Carlson (1997).

  2. 2.

    Reported in Simon (1995).

  3. 3.

    The Economist (2001, 24 May); the estimate for 2010 is by the Mexican Foreign Ministry. See also: Rose (2012).

  4. 4.

    See, for example, Blanchflower and Oswald (2000); Kahneman and Tversky (2000); Haidt (2006); or Camerer, Lowenstein, and Prelec (2005).

  5. 5.

    Zawodny (1997). See also Murayama (1991) and Kahan (1978).

  6. 6.

    See, for example, Wells (2003); Wade (2003); Owens and King (1999).

  7. 7.

    A timeline of the likely paths of human evolution is given in Zimmer (2005).

  8. 8.

    Hoefer, Ryntina, and Baker (2011), The Pew Hispanic Center (2011); and OECD (2006, 2012), International migration outlook. Paris: OECD.

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  1. Department Economics, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN, USA

    Örn B. Bodvarsson

  2. Department Economics, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, USA

    Hendrik Van den Berg

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Bodvarsson, Ö.B., Van den Berg, H. (2013). Introduction to Immigration Economics. In: The Economics of Immigration. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-2116-0_1

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