January 27, 2017
Efforts to sanction employers who hire unauthorized workers and stricter employee screening could reduce unauthorized employment and lower immigration. But they could also shift employment to the informal sector and adversely impact some industries.
March 16, 2017
Policy efforts should focus on current immigration trends with policies regulating the flows of highly educated immigrants arriving mainly from Asia.
May 28, 2024
The availability of immigrant workers can impact the options available to care for the elderly, as well as the quality of care they receive.
July 24, 2019
Individuals lacking legal status face obstacles that limit their job options and lower their productivity.
September 11, 2017
Has DACA denied jobs to hundreds of thousands of Americans by allowing those same jobs to go to illegal aliens? Or, will ending DACA hurt local economies?
January 11, 2022
By the end of 2021 there were about 2 million fewer working-age immigrants in the U.S. than there would have been if immigration trends had continued unchanged.
March 7, 2022
Net migration to the U.S. declined significantly over the last 5 years due to Trump administration policies, processing backlogs, the pandemic, and other factors.
April 2, 2023
A discussion with Giovanni Peri of the University of California at Davis on whether greater immigration can help alleviate U.S. labor market shortages.
January 31, 2022
Giovanni Peri (UC Davis) discusses the many roles that immigrants play in the US economy, and how current labor shortages are linked to international travel disruptions and immigration restrictions.
May 8, 2019
There is significant turnover among foreign workers who come to the U.S. Those most likely to leave had lower earnings and tended to see earnings fall before they left.
January 9, 2022
Tara Watson discusses her new book co-authored with Kalee Thompson, The Border Within: The Economics of Immigration in the Age of Fear.