Immigration and the Labor Market in the Post-Pandemic Recovery

Kristin Butcher, Lucas Cain, Camilo Garcia-Jimeno and Ryan Perry
Additional contact information
Camilo Garcia-Jimeno: https://www.chicagofed.org/people/g/garcia-jimeno-camilo
Ryan Perry: https://www.chicagofed.org/people/p/Ryan-Perry

No WP 2023-39, Working Paper Series from Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Abstract: Standard estimates based on the main household survey used to shed light on labor markets—the Current Population Survey (CPS)—suggest that after a significant drop during the pandemic, recent rapid growth has brought the foreign-born population back to, or above, levels predicted by the pre-pandemic trend. However, we document that the weighting factors used to make the CPS nationally representative have recently displayed some unusual movements and conclude that standard estimates of the foreign-born population may currently be too high. We also show that recent labor market indicators are inconsistent with increased foreign-born induced slack.

Pages: 18
Date: 2023-10-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-int
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.21033/wp-2023-39 (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Immigration and the Labor Market in the Post-Pandemic Recovery (2023)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:fip:fedhwp:97417

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
publications.chi@chi.frb.org

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Paper Series from Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Lauren Wiese (lauren.wiese@chi.frb.org).