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    V. Charting Native-Born Employment: 2000-2004

    Labor market trends from 2000 to 2004, a period encompassing a recession, an extended economic slowdown and the start of a recovery, also revealed no consistent relationship across all states between changes in the foreign-born workforce and employment outcomes for native-born workers. The average native-born employment rate across the 50 states and the District of […]

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    IV. Charting Native-Born Employment: 1990-2000

    The record-setting economic expansion of the 1990s improved the employment prospects of all workers. The period also experienced a surge in the foreign-born workforce, especially between 1995 and 2000. Against that backdrop, the analysis of the relationship between growth in the foreign-born population between 1990 and 2000 and the employment outcomes of native-born workers in […]

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    VII. Education and Age as Factors

    The immigrant workforce is characterized by its relative youth and its low levels of education. Most foreign-born workers fall between the ages of 25 and 44 and a smaller share has a college education compared to the native born. Does it follow, then, that the concentration of such workers would have a more pronounced effect […]

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    III. Impact of the Foreign-Born Workforce

    Employment Rate: Percent of population 16 and older that is employed Labor Force Participation Rate: Percent of population 16 and older that is employed or actively looking for work Unemployment Rate: Percent of labor force that is without work and actively looking for work This analysis exploits the wide variations in the growth of the […]

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    VIII. Conclusions

    The analysis shows that the employment prospects for native-born workers do not appear to be related to the growth of the foreign-born population. The assessment, based on Census data for 1990 and 2000 and 2000 to 2004, did not produce a distinct outcome for the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Instead, those areas […]

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    II. Introduction

    In 2000, the foreign-born population ages 16 years and older stood at 28 million, a 61% increase since 1990 and clear evidence of the surge in immigration during the previous decade. The most significant gains, in percentage terms, took place in states that had comparatively small foreign-born populations in 1990 and drew new flows of […]

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    Cubans in the United States

    Compared with the rest of the Hispanic population in the United States, Cubans are older, have a higher level of education, higher median household income and higher rate of home ownership.

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    VI. The Share of Foreign-Born Workers

    The foreign-born workforce tends to grow at the slowest rate in places where there is already the greatest number of foreign-born workers. If a population is already large, then even substantial increases in the numbers will produce a small rate of growth. The previous sections focused on growth rates. This section focuses on states with […]

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    Getting a Grad Degree in Cheating

    Researchers find that about half of all graduate students admit they cheated in the past year, with MBA students the most likely to say they cut ethical corners. Plus, studies of hockey thugs and the declining percentage of alcohol in liquor, beer and wine.