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
Responding to the Chamber of Commerce and the Economic Policy Institute
Immigration impacts labor market outcomes
Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty
Op-ed: Job Gains Are Going to Immigrants, and Keeping Young U.S.-Born Men Out of the Workforce
Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty
The Employment Situation of Immigrants and the U.S.-born in the Fourth Quarter of 2023
Compared to 2019, all employment growth has gone to the foreign-born
Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty
Recent Immigration Could Not Have Reduced Inflation Significantly
Mathematically, the effect of recent immigration on prices must be very small
Why Are So Many Working-Age Men Not in the Labor Force?
Population aging explains relatively little of the decline in overall labor force participation
Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty