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

Unemployment/Underemployment Rates and Immigration

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Who Got the Jobs in North Carolina?

Natives accounted for most of the growth in population, but all employment growth went to immigrants

Topics: Unemployment/Underemployment Rates and Immigration, North Carolina, State Level Employment Data

Who Got the Jobs in Florida?

Topics: Unemployment/Underemployment Rates and Immigration, Florida, State Level Employment Data

Who Got the Jobs in Tennessee?

All of Tennessee’s Employment Growth Since 2000 Has Gone to Immigrants, Yet Natives Accounted for Two-Thirds of Population Growth

Topics: Unemployment/Underemployment Rates and Immigration, State Level Employment Data

All Employment Growth Since 2000 Went to Immigrants

Number of U.S.-born not working grew by 17 million

Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty

A Shortage of STEM Workers?

Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty

Is There a STEM Worker Shortage?

A look at employment and wages in science, technology, engineering, and math

Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty

Obama Responds to Grim Jobs Situation by Bringing in More Workers

Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty

Panel: Is There a STEM Worker Shortage?

Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty, Unemployment/Underemployment Rates and Immigration

On Chutzpah, American Oligarchs, and Long-Term Joblessness

Topics: Unemployment/Underemployment Rates and Immigration, H-1B Nonimmigrant Visa Progam

Still No Evidence of a Labor Shortage

Immigrant and native employment in the fourth quarter of 2013

Topics: Unemployment/Underemployment Rates and Immigration