The Employment-Based Immigration Reform Solution
Henry Olsen, Pia Orrenius, Madeline Zavodny
September 29, 2010

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As the controversy over Arizona's new immigration law demonstrates, the economic recession has not taken immigration reform off the table. Far from it. As the debate heats up, public sentiment may reduce the issue to a simplistic choice between open borders and closed fences. This would force policymakers to quickly patch a broken system while ignoring the economic benefits of comprehensive immigration reform. At this event, economists Pia Orrenius and Madeline Zavodny will present their proposal for an employment-based immigration policy. Their solution would remove barriers currently preventing potential workers from entering the United States, promote economic growth, and reduce the flow of illegal immigrants. Designed to protect America's economic competitiveness and long-run growth, this plan to overhaul current immigration policy is explained in their recently published study, Beside the Golden Door: U.S. Immigration Reform in a New Era of Globalization (AEI Press, 2010). Tamar Jacoby of ImmigrationWorks USA will join the authors in the discussion. Henry Olsen, vice president of AEI's National Research Initiative, will moderate.

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Henry
Olsen
  • Henry Olsen, a lawyer by training, is the director of AEI's National Research Initiative. In that capacity, he identifies leading academics and public intellectuals who work in an aspect of domestic public policy and recruits them to visit or write for AEI. Mr. Olsen studies and writes about the policy and political implications of long-term trends in social, economic, and political thought.
  • Phone: 202-828-6024
    Email: holsen@aei.org

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    Name: Bradley Wassink
    Phone: 202-862-7197
    Email: brad.wassink@aei.org
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Pia
Orrenius

  • Pia Orrenius joined the Dallas Fed in 1999. As a labor economist and member of the regional group, she analyzes the regional economy, with special focus on the border region. Orrenius’s research also focuses on the causes and consequences of Mexico–U.S. migration, unauthorized immigration and U.S. immigration policy. Orrenius spent the 2004–05 academic year as senior economist on the Council of Economic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President, Washington D.C., where she advised the Bush administration on labor, health and immigration issues.


    Orrenius is affiliated with several academic institutions. She is a Tower Center Fellow at the Tower Center for Political Studies at Southern Methodist University and a Research Fellow at the IZA Institute of Labor in Bonn, Germany. Orrenius is also an adjunct professor at Baylor University (Dallas campus), where she teaches in the executive MBA program.


     

  • Phone: 2149225747
    Email: pia.orrenius@dal.frb.org

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    Name: Matthew McKillip
    Phone: 2028627197
    Email: matthew.mckillip@aei.org
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Madeline
Zavodny

  • Madeline Zavodny is a professor of economics at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, and a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn. She was formerly an associate professor of economics at Occidental College and a research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Her research on the economics of immigration has been published in the Journal of Labor Economics, the Journal of Development Economics, Demography, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Research in Labor Economics, and the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.


     


     

  • Email: mzavodny@agnesscott.edu
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