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Tables of Contents for Issues in the Economics of Immigration
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
 
Introduction
1
14
George J. Borjas
The Economic Progress of Immigrants
15
36
George J. Borjas
The Educational Attainment of Immigrants: Trends and Implications
51
66
Julian R. Betts
Magnus Lofstrom
Diversity and Immigration
117
26
Edward P. Lazear
Convergence in Employment Rates of Immigrants
143
42
Edward Funkhouser
The Changing Skill of New Immigrants to the United States: Recent Trends and Their Determinants
185
42
Guillermina Jasso
Mark R. Rosenzweig
James P. Smith
The More Things Change: Immigrants and the Children of Immigrants in the 1940s, the 1970s, and the 1990s
227
44
David Card
John DiNardo
Eugena Estes
Do Children of Immigrants Make Differential Use of Public Health Insurance?
271
38
Janet Currie
Social Security Benefits of Immigrants and U.S. Born
309
42
Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier
The Role of Deportation in the Incarceration of Immigrants
351
36
Kristin F. Butcher
Anne Morrison Piehl
Contributors
387
2
Author Index
389
4
Subject Index
393