Immigrants' Employment Outcomes Over the Business Cycle
27 Pages Posted: 13 Dec 2010
Abstract
Immigrants have figured prominently in U.S. economic growth for decades, but the recent recession hit them hard. Immigrantsメ labor market outcomes began deteriorating even before the recession was officially underway, largely as a result of the housing bust. An analysis of employment and unemployment rates over the past 15 years shows that immigrants' labor market outcomes are more cyclical than those of natives. The greater cyclicality of immigrants' employment and unemployment is concentrated among less-educated immigrants, but college-educated immigrants nonetheless have more cyclically-sensitive employment outcomes than college-educated natives.
Keywords: business cycle, recession, employment, immigrants
JEL Classification: J21, J61, J64, E32
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