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 ... 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 imp... More »
Economics of Immigration SeriesThe Chicago Policy Review is pleased to present a new special series on immigration. Originally conceived in October 2016, the Review did not anticipate that the timing of this series would be s... More »
The connection between crime and immigration is not as solid as is portrayed in the media. More »
New research highlights the significant contribution that high-skilled immigrants make to innovation, entrepreneurship, and economic growth in the US. 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 dispers... More »
The United States has long weaponized infectious diseases to direct racialized, derogatory epithets and to justify unfair treatments toward immigrants. In San Francisco, from 1900 through 1904, Chinese immigrants were subject... 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... More »
New research suggests that the policies of border security have ultimately backfired, leading to an increase in the number of undocumented immigrants. More »
Supply driven immigration may result in net positive employment. More »
On July 20, 2023, after much contention, the United Kingdom (UK) passed into law the “Illegal Migration Bill”. The Tory-led government implemented the bill to deter the number of migrants illegally entering the United Kingdom... More »