Jeffrey S. Passel, who conducted the study with Rebecca L. Clark, acknowledged that they examined only one side of the issue, but he said the findings are still crucial to answering the larger questions of whether immigrants, on balance, are good for the country economically, and whether the new restrictive welfare laws will help or hinder them as they try to succeed in the United States.
There is little to be gained by raising the drawbridge: for social democrats, flirting with restrictive immigration policy is economically illiterate as well as politically unprincipled.
I believe in freedom of movement and view the current government's restrictive attitude as both socially and economically misguided.
A better argument can be made, I think, that, by battling the restrictive and wasteful work rules that were strangling London newspapers, Murdoch economically liberated the newspapers, saving many more jobs.
He assails Murdoch as "the man who threw 6,000 men out of work when he broke away from the printing unions in London". A better argument can be made, I think, that, by battling the restrictive and wasteful work rules that were strangling London newspapers, Murdoch economically liberated the newspapers, saving many more jobs.
But, just as movie studios had needed the Hays Code seal of approval to distribute their films, so now they needed one of the less restrictive ratings for their movies to reach a large enough audience to succeed economically.
Furthermore, our findings provide some indication that the gradually more restrictive disability insurance policy of the Netherlands has resulted in more chronically ill people remaining economically active, especially since 2006 when a new law (see note b) emphasizing reintegration instead of income protection was introduced.
Concern over environmental matters could lead to more restrictive regimes than any arms-control provisions, ultimately shaping the way in which countries evolve economically.
And the Democratic-controlled Senate has so far been unable to move measures that would raise spending above sequester levels, closer to the less restrictive amounts that both parties had agreed to in a July 2011 deal that ended an economically damaging showdown over raising the government's borrowing limit.
Restrictive cardiomyopathy.
