Talk:David Card
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Be very careful to remember that David Card is not politically active. He wrote me this in a letter about an earlier verion of the article, which said that he did (my fault, probably):
| “ | Contrary to what you wrote, I do not advocate any position on immigration policy. If you read my book on minimum wages you would also find that I did not advocate any particular change there either. I do not take public stands on any policy issue and I do not sign petitions.
My research concerns the economic impacts of immigration on native labor market opportunities and I believe that it shows those effects are small. The NYT quote was in the context of the labor market effects of immigration, not on any overall assessment of the normative aspects of immigration. Even if policy makers believed my research findings, they could legitimately oppose certain forms of immigration because they think that ethnically homogeneous countries function more efficiently, or because they oppose the admission of ethnic groups who will be subject to protected status under civil rights law, or because they believe that the US should have slower population growth, or for other reasons. |
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Just keep this in mind. LittleDantalk 03:21, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
