With permission from ReasonTV, this is Shikha Dalmia on five reasons that unskilled immigrants are good for America. If you go to this link, you can find a fairly faithful transcript.
Apr 21 2013
The Massachusetts' governor's response to one murderer being at large was to shut down an entire large city--de facto, martial law. Various commenters have said that he "asked" people to stay in their homes. That might be literally true. But then we need to ask ourselves: what if someone had gone out on the street, ...
Apr 20 2013
There are a lot of great comments on my last post, "Better Living Through Statistics: Muslim Terrorists Edition." A few observations: That Muslims are far more likely to be terrorists than others is barely relevant to our day-to-day lives given that we live in a world where almost no one is a terrorist. p(Terrorist|Mu...
Apr 19 2013
With permission from ReasonTV, this is Shikha Dalmia on five reasons that unskilled immigrants are good for America. If you go to this link, you can find a fairly faithful transcript.
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Jonathan Finegold
Apr 20 2013 at 12:05am
Regarding her third point, that immigration is good for women, there’s a literature on a possible externalities argument that argues against migration (well, at least it poses a cost). The argument is that children of female migrants who go work in the “reproductive division of labor” tend to suffer from productivity setbacks, because the social conditions they’re raised in are worse than what they otherwise would be. I write a little bit on it here, but I include a link to one (less academic) paper that talks about the issue: http://www.economicthought.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Globalized-Social-Reproduction-Maher.pdf
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