A Dozen Facts about Immigration. Brookings Institution. Ryan Nunn, Jimmy O’Donnell, and Jay Shambaugh. October 9, 2018
This document provides a set of economic facts about the role of immigration in the U.S. economy. It updates a document from The Hamilton Project on the same subject (Greenstone and Looney 2010), while introducing additional data and research. The authors describe the patterns of recent immigration (levels, legal status, country of origin, and U.S. state of residence), the characteristics of immigrants (education, occupations, and employment), and the effects of immigration on the economy (economic output, wages, innovation, fiscal resources, and crime). [Note: contains copyrighted material].
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