On Increasing Immigration

EFor notes and references please visit: http://www.stevegerben.com/immigration/ Chapters 1. Introduction / Basketball Story 2. Jobs (Costs) - 3:30 3. Welfare (Costs) - 5:26 4. Benefits to Migrants - 10:50 5. Undocumented Immigrants - 15:45 6. Jobs (Solutions) - 20:53 7. Welfare (Solutions) - 25:51 8. Vaginas - 27:14 9. Closing Remarks - 28:40 ***I calculated this wrong. This was the only number I took the liberty of calculating and it blew it up in my big, dumb face. So let’s go to the data and see why I scored a 1030 on my SATs: During the talk I used the Brookings data, but for our discussion here let’s use Borjas’ Labor Economics textbook. (pg. 35 - http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/gborjas...) Here he has a short run loss of wages to high school dropouts of 8.3% and a long run loss of 4.8%. This comes from data between 1980-2000. Where I got lost was in the quote, “…with the average wage of high school dropouts falling by about 5%...” (again I used the Brookings numbers in the ...

32 min 2016 JAN 28