Immigration and the Labor Market in the Post-Pandemic Recovery

Kristin Butcher, Lucas Cain, Camilo Garcia-Jimeno and Ryan Perry
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Chicago Fed Letter, 2023, vol. no 486, 8

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 in the United States 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.

Keywords: Labor; and; demographic; economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J11 J15 J21 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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