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
Does Joe Biden Care About Struggling Blue-Collar American Workers?
Of Barbara Jordan and the ‘Rich Men North of Richmond’
The Impact of Biden’s Open Border on the American Workforce
House Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions,
of the Education and the Workforce Committee
of the Education and the Workforce Committee
Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty
The Long-Term Decline in Labor Force Participation at the State Level, 1960 to 2023
Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty
Working-Age, but Not Working
A look at the decades-long decline in labor force participation among the U.S.-born and its implications for immigration policy
Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty
Why Getting Labor Market Dropouts to Work Is Difficult
But limiting immigration is a good place to start
What Happened When Immigration Fell?
Less skilled Americans got a raise.
Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty