Background
George Jesus Borjas was born on October 15, 1950, in Havana, Cuba, to Juan V. Borjas and Edita F. Diaz. He migrated to the United States in October 1962 with his mother.
George Jesus Borjas was born on October 15, 1950, in Havana, Cuba, to Juan V. Borjas and Edita F. Diaz. He migrated to the United States in October 1962 with his mother.
George J. Borjas graduated with a Bachelor of Surgery in economics and mathematics from Saint Peter's College (nowadays Saint Peter's University) in 1971. He then completed his Master of Arts in economics in 1974, Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy in economics from Columbia University in 1975.
After completing all the studies, Borjas was appointed in 1972 - 1978 a senior research analyst at National Bureau of Economic Research. Then, he was an assistant professor of economics at Queens College of the City University of New York in 1975-1977. After that, he became a graduate student at the Faculty of Economics of the University. Chicago from 1977 to 1978. In 1980, Borjas entered the University of California at Santa Barbara and lived there for ten years. Later, he became a professor at the University of California at San Diego from 1990 to 1995 and entered the faculty of Harvard University in 1995.
George J. Borjas is the Pforzheimer Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the author of a dozen books on labor issues and the economic impact of immigration in the United States. Borjas and sociologist Marta Tienda edited Hispanics in the U.S. Economy, a collection of the papers presented at a Hispanic labor conference held at the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1982 that addressed the subject as it applies to various groups, including those from Puerto Rico, Cuba, Mexico, and Central and South America.
In 2011 he was named co-winner of the IZA Prize in Labor Economics.
(The United States is now admitting nearly one million leg...)
2000(From debates on Capitol Hill to the popular media, Mexica...)
2007(The U.S. took in more than a million immigrants per year ...)
1999(J. Borjas provides a modern introduction to labor economi...)
1996George J. Borjas was a member of the American Economic Association.
On November 11, 1989, Borjas married Jane Maureen Walsh. They have three children: Sarah Jane Irene, Timothy Jorge and Rebecca Kathryn.
