Immigrants' employment outcomes over the business cycle

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Immigrants have figured prominently in U.S. economic growth for decades, but the recent recession hit them hard. Immigrants' 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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 5354

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure ; Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers ; Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search ; Business Fluctuations; Cycles
• Subject: business cycle ; recession ; employment ; immigrants

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Orrenius, Pia M. ; Zavodny, Madeline
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2010

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/51612
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET