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
New White House Report on Labor-Force Dropout Is Strangely Confused About Immigration
Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty
U.S. Immigration Policy Imports Immobility and Boosts American Aristocracy, New Book Says
Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty
No, Deporting Illegal Immigrants Would Not Make Americans $600 Billion Poorer
Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty
The Employment Situation of Immigrants and Natives in the Fourth Quarter of 2015
CIS analysis of new Bureau of Labor Statistics data
Most of the Gains from Immigration Go to Immigrants Themselves – Not to Natives
Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty
In the Wall Street Journal, Two Immigration-Boosting Economists Make a False Statement, Duck Debate
Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty
Immigration and Wages
The new debate over the Mariel boatlift
Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty