Immigration
Introduction
Currently, over 15 percent of the U.S. workforce is foreign born, with those from Latin America and Asia accounting for more than three-fourths of the immigrant population. The large share of immigrant workers in the United States and other developed economies has potentially important implications for native workers and for the labor market performance of those economies.Issues
- What are the costs and benefits to the receiving countries and to the countries of origin of immigration?
- Does immigration depress wages or wage growth?
- Does an influx of immigration increase unemployment among native workers?
- Is there a relationship between expanded trade and immigration?
Selected Institute Research
The International Law of Economic Migration: Toward the Fourth FreedomJoel P. Trachtman, Tufts University
Upjohn Institute Press, 2009 Trade and Immigration: Implications for the U.S. Labor Market
Lori G. Kletzer, University of California, Santa Cruz
Chapter 4 in A Future of Good Jobs, Timothy Bartik and Susan Houseman, editors.
Upjohn Institute Press, 2008 Immigrants and Their International Money Flows
Susan Pozo, Western Michigan University
Upjohn Institute Press, 2007 Legal U.S. Immigration: Influences on Gender, Age, and Skill Composition
Michael J. Greenwood, University of Colorado, Boulder
John M. McDowell, Arizona State University
Upjohn Institute Press, 1999 More Institute Research about Immigration
Useful Links
Peterson Institute for International Economics