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
Immigrants in the United States, 2000
A Snapshot of America's Foreign-Born Population
Reconsidering Immigrant Entrepreneurship
An Examination of Self-Employment Among Natives and the Foreign-Born
The Impact of New Americans
A Review and Analysis of the National Research Council's The New Americans: Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of Immigration
Importing Poverty
Immigration's Impact on the Size and Growth of the Poor Population in the United States
Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty
The Wages of Immigration
The Effect on the Low-Skilled Labor Market
Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty