Recent Immigration Has Been Good for Native-Born Employment

Author: 
Ryan D. Edwards, Ph.D & Mao-Mei Liu, Ph.D
Date of Publication: 
June, 2018
Source Organization: 
Bipartisan Policy Center

"Recent Immigration Has Been Good for Native-Born Employment" employs a difference in differences estimation to distill the effect of increasing levels of immigration on native-born employment, and finds that immigration is positively correlated with enhanced employment opportunities for natives. These results lend credence to the belief that immigrants boost the economic prospects of America and its workers writ large.

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Citation: 

Edwards, R. D. & Liu, M. (2018). Recent Immigration Has Been Good for Native-Born Employment. Bipartisan Policy Center. Retrieved from https://bipartisanpolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Recent-Immigration-Has-Been-Good-for-Native-Born-Employment.pdf

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