%0 Report
        %A Duleep, Harriet
        %T U.S. Immigration Policy at a Crossroads
        %D 2013
        %8 2013 Jan
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 7136
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp7136
        %X Two issues have taken center stage in the recent debates about U.S. immigration policy: one, illegal immigration and more generally the entrance of poorly educated individuals into the U.S. economy and two, whether the U.S. should continue its family-based admissions system or move towards a skills-based system. This paper analyzes these issues culling evidence from the history of U.S. immigration policy, the experiences of different types of U.S. immigrants, and cross-national comparisons.
        %K opportunity cost
%K skill transferability
%K human capital investment
%K entrepreneurship
%K effect on poorly educated natives
%K illegal immigration
%K immigration
%K learning transferability
%K family-based admissions
%K permanence