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
DOL Is Considering Allowing More Employers to Circumvent Protections for American Workers
CIS submitted a comment explaining why DOL should not allow STEM employers to hire foreign workers without first attempting to hire Americans
Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty
If the Economic Indicators Are Good, Why Aren’t Voters Feeling It?
Hint: Look to Biden’s border policies, which even the Federal Reserve is lauding, but beware the hangover after the sugar rush
Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty
Op-ed: America Is a Country, Not a Labor Market
A recent criticism of immigration restriction misses the mark
America Is a Country, Not a Labor Market
A recent criticism of immigration restriction misses the mark.
Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty
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