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Tapping the Talents of Highly Skilled Immigrants in the United States: Takeaways from Experts Summit
Brain waste costs the United States roughly $10 billion in forgone taxes each year, and reducing the underemployment of college-educated immigrants requires coordinated action.
A Needed Evidence Revolution: Using cost-benefit analysis to improve refugee integration programming
European refugee integration policy relies too often on political pressure rather than evidence, and cost-benefit analysis can help policymakers quantify its long-term social value.
Vanishing Frontiers: The Forces Driving Mexico and the United States Together
Marking the release of MPI President Andrew Selee's book, this discussion explores the emerging trends in migration, economic interdependence, technology innovation, and cultural exchange that are transforming the relationship between the United States and Mexico.
Vanishing Frontiers: The Forces Driving Mexico and the United States Together
Mexico's economic and cultural transformation has created deep, mutually beneficial interdependencies with the United States that no border wall can undo, this book by MPI’s president argues.
Once Homogenous, Tiny Iceland Opens Its Doors to Immigrants
Iceland has opened its doors to immigration, with the foreign-born population share growing from around 4 percent in 1990 to 11 percent in 2017.
State and Local Labor Standards Enforcement in Immigrant-Dense Industries
Marking the release of an MPI report, this discussion focuses on the dynamics in low-wage workplaces and immigration law that have contributed to systematic violations of labor standards and explores new and effective enforcement strategies that state and local governments across the United States are utilizing.
Strategic Leverage: Use of State and Local Laws to Enforce Labor Standards in Immigrant-Dense Occupations
Immigrants experience labor violations at twice the rate of U.S.-born workers. State and local governments have unique tools to fill the enforcement gap left by federal retreat.
Will Dreamers Crowd U.S.-Born Millennials Out of Jobs?
Dreamers make up less than 1 percent of millennial workers and are concentrated in different states and industries than U.S.-born peers, weakening job displacement claims.
Life Beyond Brexit: How are negotiations faring over rights for UK citizens in the European Union?
As the European Council and the UK government gear up to move onto the next phase of Brexit negotiations, this webinar focuses on the rights of the approximately 1 million UK citizens living in the European Union who could see their futures significantly reshaped in a post-Brexit world.
Why Hide the Facts About Refugee Costs and Benefits?
A government report suppressed by the Trump White House found refugees generated $63 billion more in revenue than costs over 2005 to 2014, undermining claims of fiscal burden.
