George J. Borjas is the Pforzheimer Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is the author of several books, including Wage Policy in the Federal Bureaucracy, Friends or Strangers: The Impact of Immigrants on the U.S. Economy, and Labor Economics, and of over one hundred articles in books and scholarly journals.
"Honorable Mention for the 1999 Award for Best
Professional/Scholarly Book in Government and Political Science,
Association of American Publishers"
"[A] tour de force on the economics of immigration. In the policy
area where emotion or ideology usually overwhelms analysis, this is
a stunning piece of research--nuanced, lucid and forceful. . . .
This is an enormously impressive book."---Peter Skerry, The
Washington Post
"For an impressively researched, brightly written and tightly
argued polemic against America's current liberal immigration
policy, look at Heaven's Door."---Sylvia Nasar, New York Times
"A former Cuban refugee, Borjas addresses vexing questions in the
U.S. immigration debate, offering an up-to-date and informative
assessment of the modern immigrant experience and an excellent
review of the recent academic research."
*Foreign Affairs*
"Borjas is the leading American economist conducting research and
writing about immigration policy. A mervelous read."
*Library Journal*
"Borjas is a remarkably clear guide to the issues. . . . Borjas,
one is convinced, is acting from concern for the public good as his
research has revealed it to him."---Nathan Glazer, Harvard
Magazine
"Will probably become the most influential, widely read study of
the subject."
*Choice*
"I highly recommend this book. It is written in a very accessible
style; the arguments are easy to follow by nonexperts. . . . For
those who might want to consider some important facts that bear on
the future of immigration to the United States, though, I would
urge them to read this book."---Jim Gimpel, Political Science
Quarterly
"A thoughtful, sophisticated and richly informative book that
merits close attention."---Stephan Thernstrom, Times Literary
Supplement
"A lively and penetrating investigation of the economic dimension
of immigration in the US . . . Borjas is an acknowledged master of
inventive economic reasoning and theory, and he makes impressively
extensive use of census and other data on immigrants. He, more than
anyone, has brought the theoretical and methodological apparatus of
contemporary economics to bear on immigration, and his contribution
to the growth of the field has been considerable."---Jeffrey G.
Reitz, Journal of International Migration and Integration
"Heaven's Door is by far the best introduction I have seen to the
economics of immigration."
*New York Review of Books*
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