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
An Academic Sheen on Immigration Advocacy
A Review of "Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success"
The real employment crisis in Texas
Competition for jobs drives down labor force participation.
Labor Force Participation Remains Low in All States
Decline among less-educated U.S.-born long predates Covid-19
Five Ways to Approach a Tight Labor Market Without Increasing Immigration
Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty
The Employment Situation of Immigrants and the U.S.-Born in the First Quarter of 2022
Covid-19 exacerbated long-term decline in labor force participation
Immigration and the Crisis of Low Wages
New report ignores a major driver of the problem it decries
Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty