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Tied to the Business Cycle: How Immigrants Fare in Good and Bad Economic Times
By Pia M. Orrenius and Madeline Zavodny
Immigrants surpassed native-born workers in several key labor market outcomes from the mid-1990s through 2007, recording higher employment and lower jobless rates — but the trend was reversed with the onset of the current recession. The report, which analyzes employment and unemployment patterns over the past 15 years and two recessions, shows that immigrant economic outcomes began deteriorating before the current recession officially began in December 2007, tracing immigrants' declining fortunes largely to the housing bust which began in spring 2006.
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Taking
Limited English Proficient Adults into Account in the Federal
Adult Education Funding Formula
By Randy Capps, Michael Fix, Margie McHugh, and Serena Yi-Ying Lin
This new report by MPI’s National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy
examines the funding formula used to distribute Workforce Investment Act (WIA)
Title II federal funds for adult education, literacy, and English as a Second
Language instruction. Though all adults with limited English proficiency (LEP)
are eligible for WIA Title II programs, the authors report that the formula used
to distribute $554 million to the states in fiscal 2009 excludes 11.2 million
LEP adults with at least a high school education. With WIA up for reauthorization,
the authors suggest there is an opportunity for policymakers to revisit the funding
formula and related issues.
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Immigrants
and the Current Economic Crisis
 By
Demetrios G. Papademetriou and Aaron Terrazas
As the nation sinks into a recession that may be the worst since the Great Depression,
the economic crisis raises fundamental questions about future immigration flows
to and from the United States and how current and prospective immigrants will
fare. This report, a research product of MPI's new Labor
Markets Initiative, examines how the number of immigrants has changed since
the recession began; how legal and illegal immigration flows may change; and
how immigrants fare in the labor market during downturns.
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Uneven
Progress: The Employment Pathways of Skilled Immigrants in
the United States
 By
Jeanne Batalova and Michael Fix with Peter
A. Creticos
More than 1.3 million college-educated immigrants
in the United States are unemployed or working
in unskilled jobs because they are unable to
make full use of their academic and professional
credentials, MPI reports in the first assessment yet of the scope
of the “brain waste” problem. The report analyzes
and offers possible solutions for the credentialing and language-barrier
hurdles that deprive the US economy of a rich source of human
capital at a time of increasing competition globally for skilled
talent.
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Gambling
on the Future: Managing the Education Challenges of Rapid
Growth in Nevada
 By
Aaron Terrazas and Michael Fix
October 2008
Nevada, the fastest growing state in the United States, is
experiencing a population boom – driven in part by
immigration – that has key implications for its school
system and labor market. Immigrants represent one in five
Nevada residents and their children account for one in three
Nevadans under age 18. Yet even as schools have experienced
a surge in enrollment, federal and state investments in the
state's failing education system haven't kept pace.
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Los
Angeles on the Leading Edge: Immigrant Integration Indicators
and Their Policy Implications
By Michael Fix, Margie McHugh, Aaron Matteo Terrazas, and Laureen Laglagaron
April 2008
As Los Angeles makes the transition from being a city of immigrants to one dominated
by their US-born children, it can serve as a policy laboratory for other cities
facing the need to better integrate immigrants into US classrooms, workplaces,
and civic life. MPI’s report details the imperative for integration policies
that will benefit immigrants and the broader US society alike.
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Improving Immigrant Workers’ Economic Prospects:
A Review of the Literature
By Amy Beeler and Julie Murray
Securing the Future:
US Immigrant Integration Policy, A Reader
February 2007
The
Impact of Immigration on Native Workers: A Fresh Look at
the Evidence
By Julie Murray, Jeanne Batalova, and Michael Fix
Task Force Insight No. 18, July 2006
College-Educated
Foreign Born in the US Labor Force
By Jeanne Batalova
Migration Information Source, February 2005
The
Foreign Born in the US Labor Force
By Elizabeth Grieco, Fact Sheet, January 2004
What
Kind of Work Do Immigrants Do?
Occupation and Industry of Foreign-Born Workers
in the US
By Elizabeth Grieco, Fact Sheet, January 2004
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