Construction job losses hit immigrants the hardest
The rise and dramatic collapse of the housing boom signaled the beginning of the Great Recession and displaced nearly three million construction workers, with foreign-born non-citizen males facing particularly steep job loss.
On the Blog
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May 13, 2013 | Senate immigration bill’s key innovations for high-skilled workers are in jeopardy
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May 13, 2013 | Brookings H-1B Report’s Flawed Analysis & Flawed Process
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April 17, 2013 | Gang of Eight bill delivers on bold, broad legalization of undocumented workers
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April 2, 2013 | Why the 400,000 new ‘low-skilled’ work visas business wants is a ridiculously high number
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April 2, 2013 | New hope for workers in immigration deal between AFL-CIO and Chamber of Commerce
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April 2, 2013 | Why the W-Visa agreement should be welcomed
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March 26, 2013 | Striking J-1 students want justice from McDonald’s and U.S. State Department
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March 15, 2013 | CEOs explain how H-1B visa hurts U.S. competitiveness
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Feb. 28, 2013 | Does the Immigration Innovation Act Help Offshore Outsourcing Firms? Financial Advisory Firm Says Yes
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Feb. 22, 2013 | Problems in the high tech labor market
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Feb. 21, 2013 | The PhD bust
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Feb. 20, 2013 | Close to slavery
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Feb. 14, 2013 | Top 10 users of H-1B guest worker program are all offshore outsourcing firms
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Feb. 13, 2013 | Immigration reform and the minimum wage
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Feb. 4, 2013 | Immigration reform should invest in labor standards enforcement and electronic employment verification—not more border security
Recent work on Immigration
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Gang of 8 bill could give nearly half of new IT jobs requiring a college degree to guestworkers
April 25, 2013 | | Economic snapshot -
Guestworkers in the high-skill U.S. labor market: An analysis of supply, employment, and wage trends
April 24, 2013 | | Report -
Testimony regarding the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act, S.744
April 22, 2013 | | Testimony -
Are foreign students the ‘best and brightest’?: Data and implications for immigration policy
February 28, 2013 | | Report -
The Immigration Innovation (I2) Act of 2013
February 27, 2013 | | Fact Sheet -
Statement by EPI Vice President Ross Eisenbrey
February 21, 2013 | | Press Releases -
America’s Genius Glut
February 8, 2013 | | Commentary -
Key EPI research on immigration
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STEM labor shortages?: Microsoft report distorts reality about computing occupations
November 19, 2012 | | Report -
Migration and domestic labor markets: Auctions and employer demand versus public policy
November 2, 2012 | | Report -
EPI public comments on Labor Department’s proposed revisions to H-1B Labor Condition Application
September 7, 2012 | | Public Comments -
EPI public comments on State Department’s changes to J-1 visa Summer Work Travel program
July 10, 2012 | | Public Comments -
Labor Department’s comprehensive H-2B rule
June 27, 2012 | | Fact Sheet -
Alabama law becomes even more anti-immigrant while doing nothing to create jobs
June 1, 2012 | | Commentary -
Blocking Labor Department wage rule condemns young Americans to unemployment
May 24, 2012 | | Commentary -
A bold step forward: Assessing the State Department’s new J-1 Summer Work Travel regulations
May 16, 2012 | | Commentary -
EPI open letter to USCIS Director Mayorkas on L-1B ‘specialized knowledge’
March 26, 2012 | | Commentary -
Employer criticisms of new immigration rules are not credible
March 6, 2012 | | Commentary -
EPI applauds new Labor Department immigration rules that protect U.S. and foreign workers
February 10, 2012 | | Commentary -
State Department does the right thing, kicks abusive labor recruiter out of student visa program
February 2, 2012 | | Statement -
UK debate sheds light on the impact of immigration on the economy
January 20, 2012 | | Commentary -
Value Added Immigration: Lessons for the United States from Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom
October 31, 2011 | | Book -
Jobs and fairness: ‘prevailing wage’ rule good for Marylanders
October 26, 2011 | | Commentary -
H-2B employers and their congressional allies are fighting hard to keep wages low for immigrant and American workers
October 6, 2011 | | Commentary -
Delegation of legal experts finds credible accounts of J-1 abuses at Hershey
September 9, 2011 | | Commentary -
Hershey Co. strike highlights abuses in the J-1 program
August 17, 2011 | | Commentary -
The contraction in construction squeezed immigrants hardest
August 11, 2011 | | Report -
Blacks have highest unemployment among foreign-born workers
August 3, 2011 | | Economic snapshot -
Guestworker diplomacy: J visas receive minimal oversight despite significant implications for the U.S. labor market
July 14, 2011 | | Report -
EPI experts submit public comments supporting the Department of Labor’s sweeping changes to H-2B guestworker program
May 17, 2011 | | Public Comments
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