Economic Theory and Immigration Policy
In: Canadian journal of economics and political science: the journal of the Canadian Political Science Association = Revue canadienne d'économique et de science politique, Band 16, Heft 3, S. 375-382
Abstract
This paper has been written with only limited objectives in mind; the subject has too many ramifications throughout the fields of population and economic theory to make possible even rudimentary analysis of all its aspects. The first section will give consideration to the usefulness of optimum theory and general economic theory in the formulation of immigration policies; the second section will give a brief outline of a few of the hypotheses suggested by theory and of some of the quantitative inquiries which would be useful in testing hypotheses. Two great fields of inquiry must for the most part be left out; the systematic discussion of the relations between immigration and emigration and of the relations between population increase and wage theory cannot be undertaken here. Either one of them, attacked singly, would be probably too extensive for a paper of this length. Certain aspects of both will however enter briefly into other phases to be discussed below.
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