Labor Markets

E-Verify: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Proposals for Reform

E-Verify’s gains in speed and coverage are undercut by data errors, identity fraud, and gaps in worker protections.

Does Low-Skilled Immigration Hurt the U.S. Economy? Assessing the Evidence

Report release and discussion on the impacts of low-skilled immigration on the U.S. economy, with author Harry Holzer, Professor, Georgetown Public Policy Institute; Darrell M. West, Vice President and Director of Governance Studies, and Founding Director, Center for Technology Innovation, Brookings Institution; and MPI's Demetrios G. Papademetriou, Doris Meissner, and Michael Fix.

Immigration Policy and Less-Skilled Workers in the United States: Reflections on Future Directions for Reform

The mixed impacts of less-skilled immigration suggest the need for legal channels, flexible visa numbers, and job portability reforms to build a more adaptive system.

Evidence from the Great Recession Is In: Migration Flows Dropped, Unemployment Among Certain Immigrants Rose

Mexico's emigration rate fell from 10.1 to 4.9 per 1,000 between 2007 and 2010, amid the recession and increased unemployment.

Prioritizing Integration

H-1B Temporary Skilled Worker Program

The recession drove H-1B petition filings down by nearly 20 percent between 2007 and 2009.

Migration and Immigrants Two Years after the Financial Collapse: Where Do We Stand?

Two years after the 2008 global financial collapse, immigrants faced steeper job losses and squeezed integration budgets. But countries saw little large-scale return.

Still an Hourglass?: Immigrant Workers in Middle-Skilled Jobs

Report release on the immigrant workforce and skills with the U.S. Department of Education Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education; the Director of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce; and report authors.

Still an Hourglass? Immigrant Workers in Middle-Skilled Jobs

Immigrant employment grew fastest in middle-skilled jobs after 2000; the 2007–09 recession hit less-educated immigrant workers hardest, erasing many of these gains.

Marc Rosenblum Testimony Video: Immigration and U.S. Immigration Policy

Testimony of Marc Rosenblum, MPI Senior Policy Analyst, before the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.