Immigrants' Employment Outcomes over the Business Cycle

Pia Orrenius and Madeline Zavodny

No 5354, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: business cycle; recession; employment; immigrants (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E32 J21 J61 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2010-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-lab, nep-mic and nep-mig
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