Wages, Jobs, and Poverty
For American workers, immigration is primarily a redistributive policy. Economic theory predicts that immigration will redistribute income by lowering the wages of competing American workers and increasing the wages of complementary American workers as well as profits for business owners and other “users” of immigrant labor.
- George J. Borjas, Professor of Economics and Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
New January Data Still Shows Most Job Growth Going to Immigrants; 88% since 2020, 72% in the last year
Also, a near-record share of working-age U.S.-born men remain out of the labor force
Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty, Current Numbers
Op-ed: They don’t care about you: Dems want 470,100 illegal migrant workers because they keep wages low!
Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty, New York
They don’t care about you: Dems want 470,100 illegal migrant workers because they keep wages low!
Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty
Working-Age, but Not Working, 1960 to 2024
Documenting the decades-long increase in the share of Americans not in the labor force, and its implications for immigration policy
Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty
President Biden Directs Agencies to Fast Track Immigrant Visas for Foreign STEM Workers
Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty
Fed Chairman Concedes Border Crisis Is Boosting Unemployment
‘We understand there's been quite an influx’
Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty