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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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

Recent Immigration Could Not Have Reduced Inflation Significantly

Mathematically, the effect of recent immigration on prices must be very small

Topics: Costs of Immigration, Wages, Jobs, and Poverty

Why Are So Many Working-Age Men Not in the Labor Force?

Population aging explains relatively little of the decline in overall labor force participation

Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty

Biden Admin. Admits Its ‘Asylum Officer Rule’ Will Further Impoverish Struggling U.S. Workers

. . . In one paragraph buried deep in a 155,000-word document

Topics: Costs of Immigration, Wages, Jobs, and Poverty, Asylum

Op-ed: Steven Camarota: Illinois Has Plenty Potential Workers

Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty

Steven Camarota: Illinois has plenty potential workers

Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty, Illinois

Does Joe Biden Care About Struggling Blue-Collar American Workers?

Of Barbara Jordan and the ‘Rich Men North of Richmond’

Topics: Biden Border Crisis, Wages, Jobs, and Poverty