George Borjas on Immigration and We Wanted Workers

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🗓️ 30 January 2017

⏱️ 65 minutes

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George Borjas of Harvard University and author of We Wanted Workers talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about immigration and the challenges of measuring the impact of increased immigration on American workers and consumers. The discussion also looks at the cultural impact of immigration and what immigration in the past can tell us about immigration today.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:09.3	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
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0:47.4	Today's guest is the economist, George Boros.
0:50.6	The Robert W. Scrivener Professor of Economics and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
0:56.8	Which is done extensive work in the Library of Economics, in particular, immigration.
1:01.0	And today we'll be discussing his latest book, We Wanted Workers Unraveling the Immigration
1:06.6	Narrative.
1:07.6	George, welcome to econtalk.
1:08.6	Thank you so much for, Russ.
1:10.6	You know, I don't know if you realize this, but it's almost 40 years since the first
1:14.0	time we've ever met.
1:15.0	Yeah, I know.
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