Report

• Up to 1.7 Million Unauthorized Immigrant Youth May Benefit from New Deportation Rules

  Aug 14, 2012 - An updated analysis of President Obama's new deportation policy finds 1.7 million of 4.4 million unauthorized immigrants ages 30 and under could qualify for temporary but renewable work permits to remain in the U.S. legally.

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• The Demographics of the Jobs Recovery

  Mar 21, 2012 - Hispanics and Asians are gaining jobs at a faster rate in the economic recovery than are blacks and whites, immigrants are outpacing the native born, and men are faring better than women. For the most part, the disparate trends reflect the rapidly changing demographics of the U.S. workforce. Groups whose populations are growing faster have seen bigger employment gains. For all groups, the share of the working-age population with jobs is still as low as it was at the end of the recession.

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• Labor Force Growth Slows, Hispanic Share Grows

  Feb 13, 2012 - Hispanics will account for three-quarters of the growth in the nation’s labor force from 2010 to 2020, according to new government projections. While the Hispanic share is growing due to births and immigration, the aging of the non-Hispanic white population is expected to reduce their numbers in the labor force.

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• New Jobs in Recession and Recovery: Who Are Getting Them and Who Are Not

  Mar 10, 2011 - In congressional testimony, Rakesh Kochhar notes that in the second half of 2010, native-born workers joined the foreign-born in experiencing the employment recovery.

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• After the Great Recession: Foreign Born Gain Jobs; Native Born Lose Jobs

  Oct 29, 2010 - In the year following the official end of the Great Recession in June 2009, foreign-born workers gained 656,000 jobs while native-born workers lost 1.2 million, according to a new analysis of U.S. Census Bureau and Department of Labor data by the Pew Hispanic Center. 

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• U.S. Unauthorized Immigration Flows Are Down Sharply Since Mid-Decade

  Sep 01, 2010 - The annual inflow of unauthorized immigrants to the United States was nearly two-thirds smaller in the March 2007 to March 2009 period than it had been from March 2000 to March 2005, according to new estimates by the Pew Hispanic Center.

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• Between Two Worlds: How Young Latinos Come of Age in America

  Dec 11, 2009 - Never before in this country's history has a minority ethnic group made up so large a share of the youngest Americans. The first in a series of reports on Millennials focuses on this group which will help shape 21st-century America.

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• Through Boom and Bust: Minorities, Immigrants and Homeownership

  May 12, 2009 - The ups and downs in the U.S. housing market over the past decade and a half have generated both greater gains and larger losses for minority groups than for whites, according to an analysis of housing, economic and demographic data by the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research Center.

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• Unemployment Rises Sharply Among Latino Immigrants in 2008

  Feb 12, 2009 - The current recession is having an especially severe impact on employment prospects for immigrant Hispanics. The unemployment rate for foreign-born Latinos increased 2.9 percentage points from the fourth quarter of 2007 to the fourth quarter of 2008 compared with an economy-wide increase of 2.0 percentage points. Trends in other key indicators also reveal a more severe impact on immigrant Latinos.

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• Latino Workers in the Ongoing Recession: 2007 to 2008

  Dec 15, 2008 - A small but significant decline has occurred during the current recession in the share of Latino immigrants active in the U.S. labor force, according to a Pew Hispanic Center analysis of Census Bureau data.

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• Sharp Decline in Income for Non-Citizen Immigrant Households, 2006-2007

  Oct 02, 2008 - This report outlines recent trends in the incomes of non-citizen immigrant households in the United States and identifies who among them experienced the largest losses from 2006 to 2007. Of a total 116.8 million households in the United States, 15.7 million are headed by immigrants.

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• Latino Labor Report 2008: Construction Reverses Job Growth

  Jun 04, 2008 - The Pew Hispanic Center reports that the latest economic slowdown has had a disproportionate impact on Latino workers. From an historic low in late 2006, the unemployment rate for Latinos rose sharply in 2007 and currently stands well above the rate for non-Latinos. Immigrant Hispanics, especially Mexican and recent arrivals, have been hurt the most by the slump in the construction industry.

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• 1995-2005: Foreign-Born Latinos Make Progress on Wages

  Aug 23, 2007 - Foreign-born Latino workers made notable progress between 1995 and 2005 when ranked by hourly wage.

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• Construction Jobs Expand for Latinos Despite Slump in Housing Market, Foreign-Born Fill Vast Majority of New Jobs

  Mar 07, 2007 - Hispanic workers landed two out of every three new construction jobs in 2006, benefiting from strong employment growth in the industry even as the housing market endured a year-long slump.

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• Latino Labor Report 2006: Strong Gains in Employment

  Sep 27, 2006 - Annual labor report finds the Hispanic unemployment rate reached a historic low in the second quarter of 2006.

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• Growth in the Foreign-Born Workforce and Employment of the Native Born

  Aug 10, 2006 - 2006 Pew Hispanic Center analysis of foreign-born and native-born work force.

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• The Occupational Status And Mobility Of Hispanics

  Dec 16, 2005 - Study finds even as unemployment was on the decline for all racial and ethnic groups, structural shifts in employment across industries contributed to a greater division in the occupational status of Hispanics and whites.

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• Survey of Mexican Migrants: The Economic Transition to America

  Dec 05, 2005 - Report is the third in a series on the findings from a survey of Mexican migrants.

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• Latino Labor Report, First Quarter 2004: Wage Growth Lags Gains in Employment

  Jun 17, 2004 - While an increase in Latino employment is driving the revitalization of the U.S. labor market, the hiring surge has not translated into higher wages.

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• Latino Labor Report, 2003: Strong but Uneven Gains in Employment

  Feb 23, 2004 - The Pew Hispanic Center's annual labor report finds substantial gains in the U.S. labor market in 2003.

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