The deaths of six immigrant workers in the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore on March 26 shines a light on the critical role of foreign-born labor in construction. Foreign-born labor...
https://www.workingimmigrants.com/2024/03/construction-increasingly-depends-on-immigrant-workers/
The Center for Migration Studies estimates that the size of the unauthorized population in the U.S, grew by about 6% between 2021 and 2022, to reach 10,940. This was the largest one year increase...
https://www.workingimmigrants.com/2024/03/the-decline-then-rise-of-the-unauthorized-population/
The United States has a large lead over all other countries in top-tier AI research, with nearly 60% of top-tier researchers working for American universities and companies. The US lead is built ...
https://www.workingimmigrants.com/2024/03/the-surge-in-ai-jobs-and-american-advantage/
The Wall Street Journal reports that “Hotel owners have been on an epic hiring spree. Yet even after clawing back hundreds of thousands of jobs during the past two years, the industry is still ...
https://www.workingimmigrants.com/2024/03/hotel-staffing-shortages-and-immigration/
I have posted on global talent pool, and the role of the U.S. as a – the -premier concentration of higher education in the world, notwithstanding the rise in higher education in the developing ...
https://www.workingimmigrants.com/2024/02/global-higher-education-quality-migration-and-innovation/
Sheelah Kolhatkar writes an article in the New Yorker about abuses in the EB-5 program. She focuses on the Jay Peak project, near the Vermont border with Canada. The following is a condensed su...
https://www.workingimmigrants.com/2024/02/eb-5-abuses-including-jay-peak/
From MIT Sloan School: Hardworking, geeky, adept at math — these are some of the stereotypes that American culture attaches to East Asians, such as ethnic Chinese, Japanese, Koreans. But East A...
There is some research that has explored a potential link between an increase in foreign-born population in American local communities and a shift toward political conservatism, though the findin...
https://www.workingimmigrants.com/2023/12/immigration-and-conservative-response/
The researchers wrote: “At the start of the pandemic in February 2020, there were 13.6 million non-US citizen (immigrant) workers. By April 2020, that number had fallen to 12.2 million: Roughly...
In spite of relatively low population shares of migrants in Europe, the increase in the European labor supply from 2006 to 2018 was driven by migrants and by foreign-born persons in particular. I...