Quantcast
Channel: Migration Policy Institute - Labor Market Impacts
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 166 View Live

Displaced Ukrainians in European Labor Markets: Leveraging Innovations for...

With millions of Ukrainians seeking safety in Europe, receiving countries are facing considerable pressure and also potential opportunities to benefit from this highly qualified population’s skills....

View Article


Activism on Immigration by U.S. States Is Back, with New Tactics and...

Renewed U.S. state activism on immigration has echoes of the early 2010s, when Arizona’s SB 1070 defined a Republican-led push to increase enforcement that was ultimately muted by the courts and public...

View Article


A Winding Path to Integration: Venezuelan Migrants’ Regularization and Labor...

Venezuelan displacement has prompted countries across Latin America and the Caribbean to launch policies and programs to register, regularize, and support the integration of arriving Venezuelans....

View Article

Un camino sinuoso hacia la integración: Regularización de migrantes...

El desplazamiento de venezolanos ha llevado a países de toda América Latina y el Caribe a poner en marcha políticas y programas para registrar, regularizar y apoyar la integración de los venezolanos....

View Article

A New Way Forward for Employment-Based Immigration: The Bridge Visa

U.S. employment-based visa policies, last updated in 1990, are not aligned with the country’s current and future labor market needs. This policy brief outlines MPI’s proposal for a new visa pathway...

View Article


Coordination Breakdown: The Impacts of COVID-19 on Migration in Europe

The story of the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe is chiefly one of challenges to solidarity and coordination. Cross-border movement—even within Europe’s Schengen Area—ground to a halt, and countries took...

View Article

Converging Crises: The Impacts of COVID-19 on Migration in South America

The COVID-19 pandemic hit South American nations at a time when many were already contending with major migration challenges. Historic levels of intraregional migration and displacement, notably from...

View Article

Diverging Paths: The Impacts of COVID-19 on Migration in the Middle East and...

The COVID-19 pandemic’s impacts on mobility in the Middle East and North Africa were immediate and wide-reaching. These include the world’s largest and most sustained repatriation efforts for stranded...

View Article


Mobility Shutdown: The Impacts of COVID-19 on Migration in Asia and the Pacific

Some of the strictest COVID-19 pandemic-era limits on human mobility occurred in the Asia Pacific region. Border closures started in East and Southeast Asia in early 2020 and quickly spread through the...

View Article


As Europe and the United States Face Similar Migration Challenges, Spain Can...

Spain and the United States both receive their greatest number of immigrants from Latin America, and have worked collaboratively together on displacement crises and other migration issues. As shared...

View Article

What Does It Take to Increase Refugees’ Access to Education and Work?...

The Ethiopian government has pledged to increase access to education and employment for refugees, most of whom live in camps. There have been ups and downs along the way. This episode explores the key...

View Article

A Small Country with a Huge Diaspora, Ireland Navigates Its New Status as an...

Tens of millions of people globally claim Irish heritage, due to the country’s long history of emigration to places such as the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. In recent years,...

View Article

Peru’s Historical Anxiety about Asian Immigration May Have a Contemporary Twist

Immigration from China and Japan to Peru in the 19th and 20th centuries has had a lasting impact on the South American country. These immigrants arrived to fill labor market needs, but later...

View Article


Bridging the Gap between the Gig Economy and Migration Policy

Gig work is on a meteoric rise, including on-demand driving, delivery, and home services, but also web-based translation, legal, and other services. In many countries, immigrants play a prominent role...

View Article

Beyond the “Black Jobs” Controversy: Immigrants and U.S.-Born Black Workers...

The controversy over whether immigrants have taken "Black jobs" obscures the reality that U.S. job growth has been such that foreign-born workers' growing share of the U.S. labor market and expanded...

View Article


Large-Scale Deportations May Have Unintended Consequences

Do large-scale deportations lead to safer communities, better jobs, and less irregular migration? Research shows the answer is less clear than leading voices may suggest. This article provides an...

View Article

New Zealand: From Settler Colony to Country Reliant on Temporary Immigration

New Zealand, once chiefly a destination for British and Irish settlers, has become a destination for temporary labor and student migration from Asia and beyond. Immigrants comprised 29 percent of the...

View Article


Explainer: Immigrants and the U.S. Economy

The question of whether immigration represents a net cost or a net benefit to the U.S. economy has been a major source of contention, even as the research literature and thinking among economists has...

View Article

The Overlooked Impact of Immigration on the Size of the Future U.S. Workforce

Immigrant-origin individuals have been the driving force behind U.S. demographic growth in the United States over the past two decades. Changing immigration policy could significantly influence how...

View Article

The World Is Going Greener. What Role Can Immigrants Play?

Many countries need more workers to fill jobs in clean energy and other sectors that are critical in the fight against climate change. In this episode of our podcast Changing Climate, Changing...

View Article
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 166 View Live