Employment-Based Immigration

Labor Standards Enforcement and Low-Wage Immigrants: Creating an Effective Enforcement System

Targeted U.S. labor standards enforcement would better protect low-wage immigrants, curb unauthorized employment, and level the playing field for law-abiding employers.

Running in Circles: Progress and Challenges in Regulating Recruitment of Filipino and Sri Lankan Labor Migrants to Jordan

Labor migration from the Philippines and Sri Lanka to Jordan remains tightly regulated on paper but riddled with recruiter abuses and protection gaps.

Running in Circles: Progress and Challenges in Regulating Recruitment of Filipino and Sri Lankan Labor Migrants to Jordan (In Arabic)

لا تزال هجرة اليد العاملة من الفلبين وسريلانكا إلى الأردن خاضعة لرقابة صارمة على الورق، لكنها تعج بانتهاكات شركات التوظيف وثغرات في الحماية.

Scientists, Managers, and Tourists: The Changing Shape of European Mobility to the United States

European migration to the United States now centers on highly skilled scientists, managers, and professionals; it remains low profile in U.S. policy debates.

Eight Policies to Boost the Economic Contribution of Employment-Based Immigration

Eight policy levers, from visa design to integration and local engagement, can significantly boost the economic contribution of labor migration to the United States.

Mexican and Central American Immigrants in the United States

Mexican and Central American immigrants are central to the U.S. labor force yet experience lower educational attainment, higher poverty, and more legal vulnerability.

Migration and the Great Recession: The Transatlantic Experience

Rethinking Points Systems and Employer-Selected Immigration

Hybrid approaches to admissions are better able to connect migrants’ skills with real labor‑market demand than either points-based or employer-driven systems on their own.

The Role of Immigration in Fostering Competitiveness in the United States

Immigration strengthens U.S. innovation and competitiveness, but rigid visa caps and small employment-based quotas limit employer selection.

Steps to Fix the U.S. Immigration System: What Can the Administration Do?

MPI report release with authors MPI's Donald Kerwin, Margie McHugh, and Doris Meissner who engage in a discussion with Eva Millona, Executive Director, Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition; and Juan P. Osuna, Acting Director, Executive Office for Immigration Review, U.S. Department of Justice, on what the U.S. administration can do to fix immigration policy absent congressional action.