George J. Borjas

George Jesus Borjas (born October 15, 1950 in Havana ) is an American economist and professor of economics and social policy at Harvard University . He publishes on the economic aspects of immigration.

Life

Borjas moved with his mother from Cuba to the United States of America in 1962 and did his Ph. D. in economics in 1975 at Columbia University . The economist was Professor of Economics at the University of California from 1982 to 1990 and has been a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1983 . Since 2002 the economist has been Professor of Economics and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University. The economic aspects of immigration are his main research interests. In 2011 he received the IZA Prize in Labor Economics .

Wage Policy in the Federal Bureaucracy . American Enterprise Institute, 1980
Friends or Strangers: The Impact of Immigrants on the US Economy . Basic Books, 1990
Heaven's Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy . Princeton University Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0-69-108896-9 .
Labor Economics . 7th edition. McGraw-Hill Education, 2016, ISBN 978-0-07-802188-6 .
Immigration Economics . Harvard University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-674-04977-2 .
We Wanted Workers: Unraveling the Immigration Narrative. Norton, New York 2016, ISBN 978-0-393-24901-9 .