A person’s decision to migrate is affected by various economic, political, and social factors not only in the country of origin (push factors), but also in the destination country (pull factors). More specifically, push factors are elements that cause people t... More »
A chief concern of modern policy is the impact of immigrants on natives’ employment prospects. The difficulty for academics attempting to verify these effects is daunting. In the real world, immigrants arrive from and disperse throughout many areas, choosing c... More »
In 2015, the United Nations estimated an international migrant population of 243 million people around the world. Immigration has been a recurrent phenomenon in many economies and prompts a continuous debate regarding its impact on socioeconomic indicators — p... More »
The immigration debate playing out in the United States is beleaguered by concerns over whether unskilled immigrant workers are undermining the economic position of low-skilled American citizens. But concern over low-skilled immigration may be overshadowing di... More »
In the last year, immigration has captured political and economic debates in numerous countries. Some argue that immigrants displace citizens of the receiving country, while others claim that their tax contributions stimulate economic growth. In spite of these... More »
As recently as twenty years ago, economists taught that as the supply of unskilled labor increased due to immigration, legal or otherwise, the wages and employment of natives would fall as the two groups competed for a fixed number of jobs. This perspective ca... More »
Illegal immigration is a tumultuous topic for the Obama administration, and continues to be a source of heated debate in the 2016 presidential election. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Agency reports that illegal attempts to cross the Mexico–US bo... More »
Patti Solis Doyle, political strategist and former campaign manager for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign, talks about Latino voters in the US and Chicago, and the 2016 presidential race. More »
New research suggests that the policies of border security have ultimately backfired, leading to an increase in the number of undocumented immigrants. More »
Research on the impact of a tuition increase for undocumented students in the City University of New York (CUNY) system shows that higher costs significantly reduce degree completion by increasing drop-out rates for newer students and reducing the number of cr... More »
Researchers at the Urban Institute find compelling economic benefits of naturalization for eligible immigrants and the cities in which they live. More »
A recent OECD study suggests that differences in the rates of immigration across gender are associated with socially-institutionalized forms of gender inequality, such as norms that restrict females’ access to education, family planning, property ownership, an... More »