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Hoai-Luu Nguyen, the founder and narrator of econimate, summarizes the findings of a recent economic paper "The Effects of Immigration on the Economy: Lessons from the 1920s Border Closure" by Ran Abramitzky, Philipp Ager, Leah Platt Boustan, Elior Cohen and Casper W. Hansen. This is a great example of economic research at work and of its relevance to current day events and debates.

"The Effects of Immigration on the Economy: Lessons from the 1920s Border Closure" econimate video.(Links to an external site.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uOORAsQ6nE&list=PLMR7YToRbjlYI1O6UOr-kkTV-54VOYoUm

Watch the little video carefully and answer the following questions:

Q1/Most of the immigrants to the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries came from:

Latin America

Asia

Australia

Europe

Q2/In the 1910s, United States was absorbing about [ Select ] ["100,000", "1,200,000", "800,000", "500,000"] European immigrants per year. In 1921, Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act which [ Select ] ["encouraged", "banned", "restricted"] immigration and [ Select ] ["increased", "reduced"] the yearly number of European immigrants to about [ Select ] ["800,000", "360,000", "500,000"] per year. The quotas were further changed in 1929 to about [ Select ] ["500.000", "150,000", "800,000"] European immigrants per year. As a result, the foreign-born share of US population [ Select ] ["fell", "increased"] from about [ Select ] ["14%", "7%", "50%", "25%"] 1920 to [ Select ] ["14%", "25%", "50%", "5%"] by 1970.

Q3/Supporters of the Emergency Quota Act, argued that restrictions on immigration would benefit US-born workers; they reasoned that lower availability of immigrant workers would lead to a rise of wages for US-born workers.

True

False