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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Immigration and the Crisis of Low Wages

New report ignores a major driver of the problem it decries

Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty

Increase Immigration or Citizen Labor Force Participation? Policy Problems

Topics: Unemployment/Underemployment Rates and Immigration

A major culprit in the wage gap between Blacks and whites is America’s immigration policy

Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty

Immigration’s Impact on Black Americans: A 200-Year Chronology

Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 31

Parsing Immigration Policy

Topics: Unemployment/Underemployment Rates and Immigration

The Employment Situation of Immigrants and Natives in the Third Quarter of 2021

Unemployment and labor force participation among the foreign- and native-born

Topics: Unemployment/Underemployment Rates and Immigration

Facebook’s U.S. Worker Discrimination Settlement Should Compel Congress to End H-1B ‘Dual-Intent’ Legal Fiction

Loopholes in the law allow Big Tech and other companies to permanently retain ‘temporary’ foreign workers at the expense of American workers

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

N.Y. Times Op-Ed Misleading and Wrong on Rural Area’s ‘Need for Migrants’

Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty

The Employment Situation of Immigrants and Natives in May 2021

Unemployment and employment among the foreign-born and native-born

Topics: Unemployment/Underemployment Rates and Immigration

Employers Prefer Foreign Workers over Americans

Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 11

Parsing Immigration Policy

Topics: Unemployment/Underemployment Rates and Immigration

EEOC Reaches Settlement in Yet Another 'No Americans Need Apply' Case

Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty