Immigrant Legalization: Assessing Labor Market Effects
Public Policy Institute of California researchers Magnus Lofstrom and Laura Hill discuss their research examining the potential labor market outcomes and other possible economic effects of a...
View ArticleImmigrant Legalization: Assessing Labor Market Effects
Public Policy Institute of California researchers Magnus Lofstrom and Laura Hill discuss their research examining the potential labor market outcomes and other possible economic effects of a...
View ArticleThe Impact of Immigrants in Recession and Economic Expansion
A broad consensus exists that the long-term impact of immigration on Americans' average income is small but positive, improving employment, productivity, and income. In the short term, however,...
View ArticleImmigrants: Contributors to the Economy or Competitors for American Jobs?
Briefing and discussion of the release of the latest paper by MPI's Labor Markets Initiative: The Impact of Immigrants in Recession and Economic Expansion.
View ArticleImmigrants: Contributors to the Economy or Competitors for American Jobs?
Briefing and discussion of the release of the latest paper by MPI's Labor Markets Initiative. Speakers are report author Giovanni Peri, UC Davis Professor of Economics; Ross Eisenbrey, Vice President,...
View ArticleStill an Hourglass?: Immigrant Workers in Middle-Skilled Jobs
Report release on the immigrant workforce and skills with the U.S. Department of Education Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education; the Director of the Georgetown University Center on Education...
View ArticleMigration and Immigrants Two Years after the Financial Collapse: Where Do We...
Immigrants have been disproportionately hit by the global economic crisis that began in 2008 and now confront a number of challenges. The report, which has a particular focus on Germany, Ireland,...
View ArticleImmigration Policy and Less-Skilled Workers in the United States: Reflections...
Notwithstanding the broad consensus on the benefits of highly skilled immigration, the economic role of less-skilled immigrants is one of the more controversial questions in the immigration debate....
View ArticleDoes Low-Skilled Immigration Hurt the U.S. Economy? Assessing the Evidence
In a report by MPI's Labor Markets Initiative, noted economist and Georgetown University Public Policy Institute Professor Harry J. Holzer examines the economic reasoning and research on these...
View ArticleSteps to Fix the U.S. Immigration System: What Can the Administration Do?
This discussion focuses on the MPI report, "Executive Action on Immigration: Six Ways to Make the System Work Better," which outlines administrative actions that can be implemented to improve the...
View ArticleMigration and the Great Recession: The Transatlantic Experience
The release event for MPI’s book, Migration and the Great Recession: The Transatlantic Experience, which reviews how the financial and economic crisis of the late 2000s marked a sudden and dramatic...
View ArticleLabor Standards Enforcement and Low-Wage Immigrants: Creating an Effective...
This report highlights gaps and anomalies in labor protection, while recognizing that U.S. law sets significant standards for minimum wage, overtime pay, child labor, safe and healthy workplaces,...
View ArticleLabor Standards Enforcement and Low-Wage Immigrants: Creating an Effective...
This Migration Policy Institute webinar discusses labor enforcement laws during the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations and chronicles gaps in labor protection.
View ArticleLabor Standards Enforcement and Low-Wage Immigrants: Creating an Effective...
This webinar discusses labor enforcement laws during the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations and chronicles gaps in labor protection, while also discussing the elements necessary for an effective...
View ArticleImmigrants in a Changing Labor Market: Responding to Economic Needs
This volume, which brings together research by leading economists and labor market specialists, examines the role immigrants play in the U.S. workforce, how they fare in good and bad economic times,...
View ArticleInvesting Wisely in the Future: How the U.S. Immigration System Can Better...
With the prospects for immigration reform greater than they have been in more than a decade and the U.S. economy slowly shrugging off the effects of the recession, the United States may be on the cusp...
View ArticleInvesting Wisely in the Future: How the U.S. Immigration System Can Better...
The release of MPI's book Immigrants in a Changing Labor Market and discussion with Jason Furman, Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Principal Deputy Director of the National Economic...
View ArticleLegal Immigration Policies for Low-Skilled Foreign Workers
The current U.S. legal immigration system includes few visas for low-skilled workers, and employers have relied heavily on an unauthorized workforce in many low-skilled occupations. This issue brief...
View ArticleImmigration and U.S. Economic Competitiveness: A View from the Midwest
At this release event in Washington, DC, co-sponsored by MPI, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and ImmigrationWorks USA, the Chicago Council's independent task force on immigration released its...
View ArticleMigration and the Great Recession: A Keynote Lecture
This German Historical Institute keynote lecture, organized together with the Migration Policy Institute, is part of the conference Migration during Economic Downturns—from the Great Depression to the...
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