Donald L. Huddle

The impact of immigration on the Social Security System

In 1992, the estimated deficit of the entire Social Security System attributable to the foreign born was

Dirty work: Are immigrants only taking jobs that the native underclass does not want?

2.7 billion (i.e., payments the foreign born payed to and received from the system). Also in 1992, there was an estimated surplus of

Traditional and small‐scale culture goods in international trade and employment

19.0 billion for the native born population. During the 1993–2002 decade, the

Post-1969 Immigration and the Example of the Insolvency of the Social Security System

2.7 billion annual deficit attributable to the current stock of immigrants is projected to grow by about one percent annually in present value terms, reaching

A critique of the Urban Institute's claims of cost free immigration: Early findings confirmed

2.98 billion yearly in 2002.The ten-year deficit for the 1993–2002 decade would amount to nearly

An analysis of the saving behaviour of a group of colombian artisan entrepreneurs

30.0 billion in 1993 dollars. In policy terms, the addition of large numbers of less skilled foreign workers to the labor force (which will occur if there is no change in immigration law or enforcement policy) in the hope of bolstering the solvency of the Social Security System would in fact have the opposite effect.

Irving B. Kravis, Alan Heston, and Robert Summers. International Comparisons of Real Product and Purchasing Power. Pp. ix, 264. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978.

The contention in this article is that immigration [to the United States] legal and illegal has greatly reduced the net number of jobs available to the low-skill worker....I examine the evidence from four experiments regarding the impact of immigrants on American workers jobs: first field data from the 1982 experiment termed Project Jobs in which thousands of illegal immigrants were deported by the Reagan administration in an attempt to create jobs for American workers. Then three individual field studies in the Houston [Texas] Metropolitan Area during the 1980s which attempted to measure the willingness of the unemployed to take dirty jobs typically held by illegal immigrants....Finally two recent comprehensive econometric measures of job displacement and wage depression are reviewed. (EXCERPT)

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The literature in economics has relegated to an unimportant role the traditional and small‐scale industries in the process of development. Instead, manufacturing development is essentially seen as a transformation process from traditional to modern, from rural to urban and from agrarian to industrial. The main stress in development has been laid on industries with scale economies and positive externalities, and on the inducement of modern, capital‐intensive techniques. Small‐scale production has been taken to mean inefficient and backward; large‐scale production has become synonymous with the efficient and modern. Moreover, the consumer is characterized as preferring standardized products, while traditional goods are believed to be inferior and easily replaced by factory goods.

Measurements of Static Welfare Losses, Distribution Inequities, and Revenues in the Brazilian Multiple Auction Exchange Rate System

Advocates of immigration to save Social Security (S.S.) assume that a pay-as-you-go system will work over the long run. That assumption is not shared by the Social Security Board of Trustees. Reflection shows that it would entail ever-larger new cohorts of immigrants to support those who are retiring, in effect, a Ponzi scheme. In fact, the benefits structure of the S.S. system, which pays out proportionately more to low-wage earners than to high-wage earners relative to their contributions, taken together with the income profile of post-1969 immigrants, means that the more immigration which occurs, the deeper into insolvency the system falls.

JOHN W. F. DULLES. Unrest in Brazil: Political-Military Crises, 1955-1964. Pp. xv, 449. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1970.

This text addresses the critiques from the Urban Institute and other immigrant advocacy groups concerning the findings of an earlier study, “The Cost of Immigration” released in the summer of 1993. That study showed that the public costs associated withimmigrants settling here since 1970 amounted, in 1992, to