Washington, DC. The Immigration Policy Center (IPC) released a three-part report, Untying the Knot, which seeks to debunk the frequently misrepresented relationship between immigration and unemployment.
The reports, prepared by Rob Paral and Associates, examines data from the Census Bureau and found that there is no apparent relationship between the number of recent immigrants in a [...]
Aug 17th 2009, (Economist.com)
Remittances held up well in 2008, but this year will be much worse
LAST year was a terrible one for private financial flows to the poor and emerging economies. They collapsed from $1.16 trillion in 2007 to $707 billion as panicky rich-world investors deserted emerging- and developing-country equity and debt markets last year [...]
Washington, DC - Researchers in the United States have examined data from the national Census Bureau and found that there is no apparent relationship between the number of recent immigrants in a particular locale and the unemployment rate among native-born whites, blacks, Latinos, or Asians. Even now, at a time of economic recession and high [...]
By Karen Lema
REUTERS, MANILA - Like millions of Filipinos, Alma Ang left her homeland to work abroad for a salary far higher than she could have ever earned at home.
Now, as the global financial crisis bites, Filipino migrant workers face the prospect of losing their jobs abroad and returning home unemployed and often in debt.
In [...]
