Showing posts with label immigrants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label immigrants. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Immigrants and the tech economy

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   This picture, from a tech firm, speaks for itself.  
Friday, June 27, 2025

Visa delays likely to disrupt American hospitals and foreign doctors beginning American residencies on July 1

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 Each year American hospitals seek to fill several thousand medical residencies in excess of the number of new American medical graduates.  ...
Monday, March 10, 2025

Immigration policy and the U.S. health care labor force (David Cutler in JAMA Health)

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 Many American health care workers are immigrants, so a reduction in immigration is likely to have consequences for health care. Trump’s Mos...
Monday, June 24, 2024

Buying exit from Gaza

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 It's hard to leave Gaza. The NYT has the story: When the Only Escape From War in Gaza Is to Buy a Way Out . For many Palestinians, secu...
Sunday, February 4, 2024

How is immigration policy working on the US-Mexico border?

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  Yesterday's post linked to a paper about immigration policy, and today let's look at a report on the results of existing policy:...
Saturday, February 3, 2024

Report card on Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration

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  Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration sounds like a good goal for border control in the U.S.  It isn't what is happening, but there...
Monday, October 2, 2023

Immigration, immigration law, and illegal immigrants in legal limbo. Should we have a statute of limitations after which immigrants become legal?

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We're seeing so much illegal immigration, maybe we should change some of our laws, at least to regularize the status of immigrants who h...
Sunday, October 1, 2023

Matching Mechanisms for Refugee Resettlement By Delacrétaz, Kominers, and Teytelboym

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Learning how better to resettle refugees is not going to go out of style anytime soon.  Here's a recent AER paper: Matching Mechanisms f...
Thursday, May 26, 2022

Displaced people passes 100,000,000

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 The Guardian has the story, focusing on the causes of displacement. But efficiently matching diverse refugees to places of temporary or per...
Saturday, May 7, 2022

Streets of Gold, by Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan

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  Ran Abramitzky writes: As some of you know, I have a book coming out soon (with my long-time collaborator Leah Boustan ) using big data to...
Wednesday, March 16, 2022

Plasma donations at the border

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Here's a WSJ story about the confluence of two controversial transactions, immigration and compensation for plasma donors. Block on Bloo...
Friday, January 7, 2022

Black markets in border crossing

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 Human smuggling across borders has become a substantial business, with the demand by desperate migrants being filled by criminal gangs, som...
Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Surrogacy and citizenship in the U.S.

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 Some rules seem clear: anyone born in the U.S. is an American citizen, as is any child of an American parent.  But in these partisan times,...
Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Visa allocation, by Pathak, Rees-Jones and Sönmez

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Here's a look at current U.S. visa allocation policies from a market design perspective. Immigration  Lottery  Design:  Engineered  ...
Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Will we learn to handle immigration by the time sea levels rise?

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Below is a link to a 3-minute video of an interview (in English with Portuguese subtitles) that I gave some time ago on Portuguese TV, but ...
Friday, May 17, 2019

Repugnant phrasing

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Japan's labor and immigration policies have been more restrictive than welcoming to an immigrant/migrant labor force.  So one can imagi...
Wednesday, April 17, 2019

A wedding while expecting "twiblings"

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The NY Times has a very 21st century wedding announcement, of two husbands who both wanted to be fathers. Read it all here and feel proud t...
Saturday, February 16, 2019

More on the immigration "emergency": U.S. undocumented population continues to fall

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The latest   Journal on Migration and Human Security  has an article whose title conveys a lot of information.  For example, most undocumen...
Thursday, January 10, 2019

Repugnance watch: Illegal migration crisis? It's hard to see in the numbers

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Listening to President Trump Tuesday night, there's no doubt that he thinks many Americans can be rallied around the idea of an illegal...
Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Statement on Harmful Consequences of Separating Families at the U.S. Border, by the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine

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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine issued the following statement today:  Statement on Harmful Consequences of...