Should the US have locked heaven's door?: Reassessing the benefits of postwar immigration

Journal of Population Economics

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 317-359

  Chojnicki, Xavier ^a,b   Docquier, Frédéric ^c,d   Ragot, Lionel ^a,e  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b CEPII   (France)

^c FNRS   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

Author keywords

Computable general equilibrium; Immigration; Welfare

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149498717     PISSN: 09331433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00148-009-0286-z     Document Type: Article

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