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Real Immigration Reform: The Path To Credibility, Vernon Briggs
Real Immigration Reform: The Path To Credibility, Vernon Briggs
Vernon M Briggs Jr
[Excerpt] For over 40 years, efforts have been made to respond to the unexpected consequences of the accidental revival of mass immigration that has followed the passage of the Immigration Act of 1965. Immigrants had been declining as a percentage of the population since 1914 and in absolute numbers since 1930. In 1965 only 4.4 percent of the population was foreign born and they totaled only 8.5 million people. There was absolutely no intention by policy makers of that era to increase the level of immigration. The post-World War II "baby boom" began pouring a tidal wave of new labor …
Foreign Policy Implications Of Illegal Immigration From Mexico, Vernon Briggs
Foreign Policy Implications Of Illegal Immigration From Mexico, Vernon Briggs
Vernon M Briggs Jr
Public testimony by Prof. Briggs given before the Committee on International Relations, U.S. House of Representatives, May 24, 1978.
Illegal Mexican Immigration: The Role Of Legislation, Vernon Briggs
Illegal Mexican Immigration: The Role Of Legislation, Vernon Briggs
Vernon M Briggs Jr
No abstract provided.
Testimony On H.R. 1915 , Vernon Briggs
Testimony On H.R. 1915 , Vernon Briggs
Vernon M Briggs Jr
Public testimony by Prof. Briggs given before the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, June 29, 1995.
Immigration Reform And The Urban Labor Market: Resolved And Unresolved Data Issues, Vernon Briggs
Immigration Reform And The Urban Labor Market: Resolved And Unresolved Data Issues, Vernon Briggs
Vernon M Briggs Jr
No abstract provided.
Ilr Impact Brief - Doomed To Fail: The Unintended Consequences Of Guestworker Programs, Vernon Briggs
Ilr Impact Brief - Doomed To Fail: The Unintended Consequences Of Guestworker Programs, Vernon Briggs
Vernon M Briggs Jr
The ILR Impact Brief series highlights the research and project based work conducted by ILR faculty that is relevant to workplace issues and public policy. Brief #2 highlights the authors' research on immigration policy and the American labor force.
Testimony Before The U.S. Commission On Immigration Reform, Vernon Briggs
Testimony Before The U.S. Commission On Immigration Reform, Vernon Briggs
Vernon M Briggs Jr
Public testimony by Prof. Briggs given before the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, February 23, 1995.
Illegal Immigration: Research And Public Policy, Vernon Briggs
Illegal Immigration: Research And Public Policy, Vernon Briggs
Vernon M Briggs Jr
No abstract provided.
Employment Trends And Contemporary Immigration Policy: The Macro Implications, Vernon Briggs
Employment Trends And Contemporary Immigration Policy: The Macro Implications, Vernon Briggs
Vernon M Briggs Jr
No abstract provided.
Non-Immigrant Labor Policy In The United States, Vernon Briggs
Non-Immigrant Labor Policy In The United States, Vernon Briggs
Vernon M Briggs Jr
"The employment of foreign workers as a supplement to the domestic labor force has been a recurrent public policy issue throughout much of the history of the United States. Under specific circumstances, nonimmigrant workers have been allowed legal access to the American labor market. They should not be confused with illegal immigrants who do not have such a privilege. The legislative and administrative actions that have authorized non-immigrant programs traditionally have been shrouded in controversy. Policy concerns have centered upon both the economic effects of non-immigrant workers on working conditions for citizen workers and the special restrictions often imposed on …
Immigration Policy And Its Impact: The Relevance For New York, Vernon Briggs
Immigration Policy And Its Impact: The Relevance For New York, Vernon Briggs
Vernon M Briggs Jr
No abstract provided.
The Impact Of Fiscal Policy On Manpower Requirements, Vernon Briggs
The Impact Of Fiscal Policy On Manpower Requirements, Vernon Briggs
Vernon M Briggs Jr
No abstract provided.
Immigration And Poverty Reduction: Policymaking On A Squirrel Wheel, Vernon Briggs
Immigration And Poverty Reduction: Policymaking On A Squirrel Wheel, Vernon Briggs
Vernon M Briggs Jr
No abstract provided.
Illegal Immigration: Research And Public Policy, March 27, 1981, Vernon Briggs
Illegal Immigration: Research And Public Policy, March 27, 1981, Vernon Briggs
Vernon M Briggs Jr
No abstract provided.
Foreign Labor Programs As An Alternative To Illegal Immigration Into The United States: A Dissenting View, Vernon Briggs
Foreign Labor Programs As An Alternative To Illegal Immigration Into The United States: A Dissenting View, Vernon Briggs
Vernon M Briggs Jr
No abstract provided.
Immigration Policy And The U.S. Economy: An Institutional Perspective, Vernon Briggs
Immigration Policy And The U.S. Economy: An Institutional Perspective, Vernon Briggs
Vernon M Briggs Jr
"By virtue of events that have already transpired and public policies already in place, the 1990s will witness the largest inflow of immigrants into the population and labor force of the US of any decade inn the nation's history. The revival of the phenomenon of mass immigration from out of the nation's past began in 1965. Unlike earlier mass immigration periods to the US, the post-1965 wave of immigrants shows no sign of imminent decline. For a variety of reasons, immigration is a subject that is especially amenable to study and interpretation by institutional economists. In today's world setting, international …
Guestworker Programs: Lessons From The Past And Warnings For The Future, Vernon Briggs
Guestworker Programs: Lessons From The Past And Warnings For The Future, Vernon Briggs
Vernon M Briggs Jr
"Immigration policy is a minefield of controversial issues, and among the most explosive are those programs that permit low-skilled foreign nationals to work in the same labor market as U.S. citizens and permanent resident aliens. Because such endeavors have been undertaken in the past, they have a track record and have been subject to extensive research. There is no need to speculate about what might happen if any new such venture – such as that proposed by the Bush Administration on January 7, 2004 – were to be enacted. The outcome is easily predicted."
U.S. Immigration Policy And The Plight Of Its Unskilled Workers, Vernon Briggs
U.S. Immigration Policy And The Plight Of Its Unskilled Workers, Vernon Briggs
Vernon M Briggs Jr
[Excerpt] In one of his most memorable public addresses, President John F. Kennedy spoke to the 1962 Graduating Class at Yale University the following words: “For the great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie—deliberate, contrived, and dishonest—but the myth—persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.” In no other area of public policy today are Kennedy’s words more appropriate than as they relate to the subject of immigration …
Achieving National Economic And Social Goals: The Counterproductive Role Of Contemporary U.S. Immigration Policy, Vernon Briggs
Achieving National Economic And Social Goals: The Counterproductive Role Of Contemporary U.S. Immigration Policy, Vernon Briggs
Vernon M Briggs Jr
No abstract provided.
The Need For A Contingent Countercyclical Pse Program, Vernon Briggs
The Need For A Contingent Countercyclical Pse Program, Vernon Briggs
Vernon M Briggs Jr
No abstract provided.
The Mexico-United States Border: An Assessment Of The Policies Of The United States Upon The Economic Welfare Of The Chicano Population, Vernon Briggs
The Mexico-United States Border: An Assessment Of The Policies Of The United States Upon The Economic Welfare Of The Chicano Population, Vernon Briggs
Vernon M Briggs Jr
No abstract provided.
Error Discovered In Unemployment Rate, Vernon Briggs
Error Discovered In Unemployment Rate, Vernon Briggs
Vernon M Briggs Jr
"A widely circulated 1997 U.S. Census Bureau publication contains a computational error that shows a much lower unemployment rate for immigrants than was actually the case."
Human Resource Development And The Formulation Of National Economic Policy, Vernon Briggs
Human Resource Development And The Formulation Of National Economic Policy, Vernon Briggs
Vernon M Briggs Jr
"One of the more insightful explanations for economic progress in industrialized nations during the last half of the twentieth century has been the recognition of "human resources as the wealth of nations." The notion has long enjoyed a rhetorical appeal by politicians in democratic societies. But awareness that the principle has enormous economic implications for national and international well-being has essentially been a post-World War II phenomena. Increasingly, policymakers in industrialized nations have realized that the human resource development of their labor forces is the key to efforts to address such difficult issues as efficiency, equity, stabilization, and growth. Nations …
Chicano---Mexican Immigrant Interface, Vernon Briggs
Chicano---Mexican Immigrant Interface, Vernon Briggs
Vernon M Briggs Jr
No abstract provided.
The Strike Insurance Plan Of The Railroad Industry, Vernon Briggs
The Strike Insurance Plan Of The Railroad Industry, Vernon Briggs
Vernon M Briggs Jr
"A far-reaching program designed to minimize revenue losses during strikes became operative in the nation's railroad industry on September 1, 1959. The plan is formally known as the Service Interruption Policy, or, more commonly, as the railroad strike insurance plan."
Achieving National Economic And Social Goals: The Counterproductive Role Of Post-1965 Immigration Policy, Vernon Briggs
Achieving National Economic And Social Goals: The Counterproductive Role Of Post-1965 Immigration Policy, Vernon Briggs
Vernon M Briggs Jr
[Excerpt] Immigration is a discretionary policy of every nation state. No citizen of any foreign nation has a right to enter any other country for the purpose of permanent settlement or for employment just because he or she wishes to do so. The opportunities and the conditions under which they may enter are legally prescribed. Hence, in the contemporary case of the United States, it is the nation's immigration policy that is the source of the conflict with the national interest, not the actions of those who, as individuals, are merely availing themselves of its terms and opportunities.
Immigration Policy And Organized Labor: A Never-Ceasing Issue, Vernon Briggs
Immigration Policy And Organized Labor: A Never-Ceasing Issue, Vernon Briggs
Vernon M Briggs Jr
[Excerpt] Over its long history, few issues have caused the caused the American labor movement more agony than has the issue of immigration. It is ironic this is the case since most adult immigrants directly join the labor force as do eventually most of their immediate family members. But precisely because immigration affects the size, skill composition and geographical distribution of the nation's labor force, it also influences local, regional and national labor market conditions. Hence, organized labor can never ignore the public policies that determine immigration trends.
The "Albatross" Of Immigration Reform: Temporary Worker Policy In The United States, Vernon Briggs
The "Albatross" Of Immigration Reform: Temporary Worker Policy In The United States, Vernon Briggs
Vernon M Briggs Jr
"Temporary worker policy in the United States traditionally has been advocated as a means to meet shortages for labor - a demand problem. Over the past decade, however, there has been support for the use of such policies as a means of addressing illegal immigration - a supply problem. Despite the fact that experiences show that such endeavors actually foster illegal immigration, the drive for immigration reform in the 1980s was seriously encumbered with a variety of attempts both to expand existing and to add new temporary worker programs. This article reviews the evolution of temporary worker policy and indicates …
Ethics Trumping Economics? The Economics Of Immigration Control, Vernon Briggs
Ethics Trumping Economics? The Economics Of Immigration Control, Vernon Briggs
Vernon M Briggs Jr
"In 1993, the United Nation's Population Fund identified immigration as "the human crisis of the age." Its report pointed out that, historically, there were vast unpopulated spaces on Earth that were livable and where human beings could move in times of conflict, depletion of their local natural resources, climatological changes, or natural disasters. By the end of the 20th century, however, it is no longer possible to move en masse anywhere on the globe without confronting territory already occupied by others, Moreover, the report states that these would-be "recipient areas and countries are already under stress" themselves. Consequently, immigration is …
The Labor Market Impact Of The Undocumented Worker, Vernon Briggs
The Labor Market Impact Of The Undocumented Worker, Vernon Briggs
Vernon M Briggs Jr
No abstract provided.