The Foreign-Born Population and Its Effects on the U.S. Economy and the Federal Budget—An Overview

Congressional Budget Office

No 55967, Reports from Congressional Budget Office

Abstract: About 47 million people living in the United States in 2018 were born in other countries; roughly three-quarters of them were here legally. Immigration, whether legal or illegal, expands the labor force and changes its composition, leading to increases in total economic output—though not necessarily to increases in output per capita. Over the past two decades, foreign-born people accounted for about half of the growth of the U.S. labor force.

JEL-codes: F22 F66 J11 J15 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-01-09
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