Immigration and the Work Force

Abstract

Since the 1970s the striking increase in immigration to the United States has been accompanied by a marked change in the composition of the immigrant community with a much higher percentage of foreign-born workers coming from Latin America and Asia and a dramatically lower percentage from Europe. This [study presents] new data sets on the labor force wage rates and demographic conditions of both the U.S. and source-area economies through the 1980s. The contributors analyze the economic effects of immigration on the United States and selected source areas with a focus on Puerto Rico and El Salvador. They examine the education and job performance of foreign-born workers; assimilation fertility and wage rates; and the impact of remittances by immigrants to family members on the overall gross domestic product of source areas. (EXCERPT)

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