The average US citizen would be better off if a larger number of highly educated foreign workers were legally allowed to immigrate to the US each year.
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 Daron Acemoglu |
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 Alberto Alesina |
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 Joseph Altonji |
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 Alan Auerbach |
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 David Autor |
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 Katherine Baicker |
University of Chicago | Bio/Vote History | ||
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 Marianne Bertrand |
Chicago | Bio/Vote History | ||
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 Raj Chetty |
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 Judith Chevalier |
Yale | Bio/Vote History | ||
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See Mankiw's NY Times column for a good discussion.
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 Janet Currie |
Princeton | Bio/Vote History | ||
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 David Cutler |
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 Angus Deaton |
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 Darrell Duffie |
Stanford | Bio/Vote History | ||
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If the supply of high-skilled labor is constrained as now, productivity is harmed and the average person pays more for goods and services.
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 Aaron Edlin |
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 Barry Eichengreen |
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 Ray Fair |
Yale | Bio/Vote History | ||
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 Pinelopi Goldberg |
Yale | Bio/Vote History | ||
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 Claudia Goldin |
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 Austan Goolsbee |
Chicago | Bio/Vote History | ||
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duh
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 Michael Greenstone |
University of Chicago | Bio/Vote History | ||
 Robert Hall |
Stanford | Bio/Vote History | ||
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The big issue in immigration is the families of the workers. Almost any worker is a benefit, but the other family members may be costly.
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 Bengt Holmström |
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 Caroline Hoxby |
Stanford | Bio/Vote History | ||
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As a matter of economics,question does not have a simple answer.There are trade-offs.Canada's immigration suggests positive overall effects.
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 Kenneth Judd |
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 Anil Kashyap |
Chicago Booth | Bio/Vote History | ||
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 Pete Klenow |
Stanford | Bio/Vote History | ||
 Jonathan Levin |
Stanford | Bio/Vote History | ||
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Economic growth and fiscal benefits, and wage reductions for comparable domestic workers, all seem hard to measure.
-see background information here |
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 Eric Maskin |
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 William Nordhaus |
Yale | Bio/Vote History | ||
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 Maurice Obstfeld |
Berkeley | Bio/Vote History | ||
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 Emmanuel Saez |
Berkeley | Bio/Vote History | ||
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 José Scheinkman |
Columbia University | Bio/Vote History | ||
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 Richard Schmalensee |
MIT | Bio/Vote History | ||
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Some highly educated natives would likely lose, but I expect there would be net gains overall. Hard to be very confident, though.
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 Hyun Song Shin |
Princeton | Bio/Vote History | ||
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 Nancy Stokey |
University of Chicago | Bio/Vote History | ||
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 Richard Thaler |
Chicago Booth | Bio/Vote History | ||
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This is a no brainer. You can't be serious about "job creators" without supporting reform here.
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 Christopher Udry |
Northwestern | Bio/Vote History | ||
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The overall benefits of increased migration of this kind are enormous. The distribution of these benefits is less well-understood.
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 Luigi Zingales |
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