Electronic Resources on Immigration and Economic Development



Immigration in America, NPR

 

 

Absorption and Economic Effects

 

Aneesh, A.  (2000).  Self-Employment and Earnings among High-Skilled Immigrants in the United States.

http://www.ccis-ucsd.org/PUBLICATIONS/wrkg18.PDF

 

Center for Immigration Studies.  (1998).  Effect of Immigration on Low Skilled Labor Market.

http://www.cis.org/articles/1998/wagestudy/wage.pdf

 

Center for Immigration Studies.  (2000).  The New Ellis Islands.

http://www.cis.org/articles/2001/back1101.html

 

Camarota, Steven.  (1999).  Reconsidering Immigrant Entrepreneurship: An Examination of Self-Employment Among Natives and the Foreign-Born.

http://www.cis.org/articles/1999/selfemployment/

 

_____.  (1999).  Importing Poverty: Impact of immigration on size and growth of the poor population in the US.

http://www.cis.org/articles/poverty_study/index.html

 

_____.  (2001, July).  Immigration from Mexico: Assessing the impact on the United States.

http://www.cis.org/articles/2001/mexico/mexico.pdf

 

Clark, William A.V.  (1999, Feb.)  Immigration and California communities.  Backgrounder.

http://www.cis.org/articles/1999/Backgrounder299/back299.html

 

Julian, Simon.  (1995).  Immigration: The demographic and economic facts.

http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/pr-immig.html

 

Lofstrom, Magnus.  (2000).  Self-Employment and Earnings among High-Skilled Immigrants in the United States.

http://www.ccis-ucsd.org/PUBLICATIONS/wrkg13.PDF

 

National Center for Policy Analysis.  (2001).  Effects of Immigration.

http://www.ncpa.org/pd/immigrat/effects.html

 

National Center for Policy Analysis.  (1996).  Immigration fueling US population boom.

http://www.ncpa.org/pd/immigrat/pdimm/pdimm1.html

 

National Immigration Forum.  (2000, March).  Economists on Immigration. http://www.immigrationforum.org/currentissues/articles/030300_economists.htm

 

National Immigration Forum.  (2000, March).  America's Openness Gives Us a Competitive Edge.

http://www.immigrationforum.org/currentissues/articles/032700_openness.htm

 

OECD.  Trends in immigration and economic consequences.  Economics Department Working Papers No. 284.

http://www.oecd.org/pdf/M00029000/M00029204.pdf

 

Scully, Gerald W.  (1995, Aug.).  Multiculturalism and economic growth.  NCPA Policy Report No. 196.

http://www.ncpa.org/studies/s196/s196.html

 

The Impact of Immigration on California Summary and Analysis of Immigration in a Changing Economy.  (1998, Summer).  Immigration Review, no. 32, a publication of the Center for Immigration Studies.

http://www.cis.org/articles/1998/IR32/impact.html

 

Visco, Ignazio.  (2000, July).  Immigration, development and the labour market.  Speech given at the International Conference on "Migration: scenarios for the 21st Century", Rome.

http://www.oecd.org/pdf/M00008000/M00008031.pdf

 

 

Available for Purchase

 

Roy, Kakoli.  Essays on the economics of international migration.

http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/9961803

 

Kuenzi, Jeffrey John.  Self-selection and migrants' destination choice: A study of Puerto Ricans in the US and Puerto Rico.

http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/9909178

 

Howell, David and Mueller, Elizabeth.  (1996).  Immigrants as Workers in New York City: A Review of Current Debates and Evidence.

http://www.newschool.edu/icmec/

 

 

 

Metropolitan Demand for Immigration

 

Florida, Richard and Gates, Gary.  (2002).  Technology and Tolerance: The Importance of Diversity to High-Technology Growth.  Brookings’ Center on Urban & Metropolitan Policy.

http://www.brookings.org/dybdocroot/es/urban/techtol.pdf

 

Griswold, Daniel T.  (2002).  NO: Immigrants have enriched American culture and enhanced our influence in the world.

http://insightmag.com/main.cfm/include/detail/storyid/185225.html

 

Griswold, Daniel T.  (2002).  Should the US Reduce by 50% the Number of Legal Immigrants and 'Immigrant' Students?

http://www.freetrade.org/pubs/articles/dg-4-23-02.htm

 

Griswold, Daniel T.  (cited, 2002).  Lift the Congressional Quota on High-Skilled Workers.

http://www.freetrade.org/pubs/articles/dg-quotas.html

 

Masters, Suzette Brooks and Ruthizer, Ted.  (2000).  The H-1B Straitjacket: Why Congress Should Repeal the Cap on Foreign-Born Highly Skilled Workers.

http://www.freetrade.org/pubs/briefs/tbp-007es.html

 

National Center for Policy Analysis.  (1998).  Immigration Laws Out of Sync With U.S. Needs.

http://www.ncpa.org/pd/immigrat/pdimm/immapril98a.html

 

National Center for Policy Analysis.  Illegal immigration and labor markets.  (2001).

http://www.ncpa.org/pd/immigrat/pd080101e.html

 

National Immigration Forum.  (2000).  Labor and Business Unite on Importance of Immigration.

http://www.immigrationforum.org/currentissues/articles/021800_labor.htm

 

National Immigration Forum.  (2001).  Immigrants and the Economy.

http://www.immigrationforum.org/pubs/articles/economy2001.htm

http://www.freetrade.org/pubs/briefs/tbp-007es.html

 

National Immigration Forum.  (2000, April).  Heartland Looks to Immigrants to Fill Workforce Gap.  Coalition Aids Immigrants: Also Aims to Ease Shortage of Workers.

http://www.immigrationforum.org/currentissues/articles/041400_heartland.htm

 

National Immigration Forum.  (2000, June).  Governor's Task Force Suggests Making Iowa an Immigrant Enterprise Zone.

http://www.immigrationforum.org/currentissues/articles/041400_heartland.htm

 

 

Trends in Immigration

 

Bouvier, Leon F., Poston, Dudley L. Jr. and Zhai, Nanbin Benjamin.  (1995, July).  Zero Net International Migration: What Does It Really Mean?

http://www.cis.org/articles/1995/Zero_net_migration.pdf

 

Camarota, Steven.  (2000).  Immigrants in 2000: A snapshot of foreign born population.

http://www.cis.org/articles/2001/back101.html

 

Camarota, Steven.  (2000).  The New Ellis Islands.

http://www.cis.org/articles/2001/back1101.html

 

Coppel, Jonathan, Dumont, Jean-Christophe and Visco, Ignazio.  (2001, Feb.).  Trends in immigration and economic consequences.  Economics Department Working Papers No. 284.

http://www.oecd.org/pdf/M00029000/M00029204.pdf

 

Fix, Michael E and Passel Jeffrey S.  (2001, Aug).  U.S. Immigration at the Beginning of the 21st Century--Testimony before the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims Hearing on "The U.S. Population and Immigration" Committee on the Judiciary U.S. House of Representatives.

http://www.urban.org/Template.cfm?Section=ByTopic&NavMenuID=62&template=/TaggedContent/ViewPublication.cfm&PublicationID=7321

 

Kolankiewicz, Leon.  (2000).  Immigration and Population Forecasts.  Census Bureau 2000.

http://www.cis.org/articles/2000/back600.html

 

Lindsay, James M.  (January 5, 2001).  A Timid Silence on America's Immigration Challenge.  Appeared in San Diego Union-Tribune.

http://www.brookings.org/dybdocroot/webcache/www.brookings.org-80/p10/a0022110.1056.htm

 

_____.  (November 8, 2001).  The Post-Sept. 11 Debate Over Immigration Policy.  Appeared in San Diego Union-Tribune.

http://www.brookings.org/views/op-ed/lindsay/20011108.htm

 

Marcelli, Enrico A.  (2001).  From the Barrio to the ‘ Burbs: Immigration and Urban Sprawl in Southern California.

http://www.ccis-ucsd.org/PUBLICATIONS/wrkg32.PDF

 

Martin, Susan.  (2001).  Heavy Traffic: International Migration in an Age of Globalization" in Brookings Review.  Vol. 19, No. 4.  Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution.

http://www.brook.edu/dybdocroot/press/REVIEW/fall2001/martin.htm

 

Menjivar, Cecilia.   (2000).  Networks and Religious Communities among Salvadoran Immigrants in San Francisco, Phoenix, and Washington, D.C.

http://www.ccis-ucsd.org/PUBLICATIONS/wrkg25.PDF

 

National Center for Policy Analysis.  (1996).  Immigration fueling US population boom.

http://www.ncpa.org/pd/immigrat/pdimm/pdimm1.html

 

National Center for Policy Analysis.  (cited, 2002).  Dallas Federal Reserve: Immigrants are a diverse group.

http://www.ncpa.org/pd/immigrat/oct98c.html

 

OECD.  Trends in immigration and economic consequences.  Economics Department Working Papers No. 284.

http://www.oecd.org/pdf/M00029000/M00029204.pdf

 

OECD.  (2001).  Report Shows Immigration Flows Rising in Many OECD Countries.

http://www.oecd.org/EN/document/0,,EN-document-590-17-no-12-7240-590,00.html

 

Passel, Jeffrey S. and Zimmermann, Wendy.  (2000).  Are immigrants leaving California? Settlement patterns of immigrants in the late 1990s. http://www.urban.org/Uploadedpdf/are_immigrants_leaving_ca.pdf

 

_____ and Rebecca L. Clark.  (1998).  Immigrants in New York: Their Legal Status, Incomes, and Taxes.

http://www.urban.org/Template.cfm?Section=ByTopic&NavMenuID=62&template=/TaggedContent/ViewPublication.cfm&PublicationID=6239

 

Pistone, Michele R.  (1998).  New asylum laws: Undermining an American ideal.

http://www.freetrade.org/pubs/pas/pa-299es.html

 

Salt, John.  (1997).  International movements of the highly skilled.  Occasional Papers No.3.

http://www.olis.oecd.org/olis/1997doc.nsf/3d0f5ae71b96add38025656400595b54/e4d3dbb3192dc70bc125653d004461ff/$FILE/10E75613.ENG

 

Schoenholtz, Andrew and Stanton, Kristin.  (2001).  Reaching the Immigration Market: Creating Homeownership Opportunities for New Americans.  Published by the Fannie Mae Foundation and Georgetown University.

http://www.fanniemaefoundation.org/programs/pdf/rep_immigrant.pdf

Singer, Audry.  (2002).  America's Diversity at the Beginning of the 21st Century: Reflections from Census 2000.  

http://www.brookings.org/dybdocroot/views/papers/singer/20020402.pdf

 

Usdansky, Margaret L. (2000).  The H-1B Visa Debate in Historical Perspective: The Evolution of U.S. Policy Toward Foreign-Born Workers.

http://www.ccis-ucsd.org/PUBLICATIONS/wrkg11.PDF

 

 

Available for Purchase

 

Kritz, Mary M.  (1996).  Population Growth and International Migration: Is There A Link?

http://www.newschool.edu/icmec/

 

Martin, Philip L. & Taylor, Edward.  (1996).  Managing Migration: The Role of Economic Policies.

http://www.newschool.edu/icmec/

 

Masters, Suzette Brooks.  (2001).  Networking the Networks:  Improving Information Flows in the Immigration Field.

http://www.newschool.edu/icmec/

 

Smith, Robert C. (1997).  Current Dilemmas and Future Prospects of the Inter-American Migration System.

http://www.newschool.edu/icmec/

 

 

 

Online Academic Research Sites

 

American Family Immigration History Center
www.ellisislandrecords.org

 

American Immigration Law Foundation
www.ailf.org/

 

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
http://www.ceip.org/programs/migrat/migrpm.htm

 

Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California at San Diego

http://www.ccis-ucsd.org/publications.htm
          Working Papers

http://www.ccis-ucsd.org/

 

Center for Immigration Research at the University of Houston
, links http://www.uh.edu/cir/

 

Center for Immigration Studies
www.cis.org/

 

Center for Migration Studies of New York

http://cmsny.library.net/
          Library and Archives

http://www.cmsny.org/

 

Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies at the University of Toronto
http://www.utoronto.ca/ethnicstudies/

 

Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota
http://www1.umn.edu/ihrc/

 

Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University
http://www.georgetown.edu/sfs/programs/isim/

 

International Center for Migration, Ethnicity and Citizenship at New School University
http://www.newschool.edu/icmec/

 

Irish and Irish Immigration Studies at Southern Illinois University
http://www.siu.edu/~ireland/

 

Latin American Network Information Center at the University of Texas at Austin
www.lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/immigration/

 

Lesbian and Gay Immigration Rights Task Force
www.lgirtf.org/

 

National Immigration Law Center
www.nilc.org

 

Project on Internal Displacement at the Brookings-CUNY Graduate Center
http://www.brook.edu/dybdocroot/fp/projects/idp/idp.htm

 

Resource Center of the Americas
www.Americas.org

 

The Cato Institute
www.cato.org/

 

The Inter-University Committee on International Migration
http://web.mit.edu/cis/www/migration/

 

The National Archives and Records Administration
http://www.archives.gov/research_room/genealogy/immigrant_arrivals/passenger_records.html

 

The National Center for Policy Analysis

http://www.ncpa.org

 

The National Immigration Forum
http://www.immigrationforum.org/

 

Urban Institute
www.urban.org/

 

US Immigration and Naturalization Service
www.usdoj.gov/ins/

National Immigration Forum.  (2000).  Labor and Business Unite on Importance of Immigration.



USDOJ, EOIR Virtual Law Library
www.usdoj.gov/eoir/vll/libindex.html

The Ohio State University Libraries Statistics and Data Sets
http://www.lib.ohio-state.edu/refweb/govdocs/stats.htm

 



Local information (Northeast Ohio)

In The New Global And Multicultural Marketplace, Immigrants Hold A Key To Revitalizing NE Ohio, by Rose A. Zitiello, Esq. and Richard T. Herman, Esq. (in "Immigration Daily")
http://www.ilw.com/cgi-shl/pr.pl