Immigrant workers are an important part of the labor force in many countries. How do their earnings compare with those of native workers?
Serdar Birinci and Fernando Leibovici, both economists and economic policy advisors at the St. Louis Fed, and Kurt See, a principal researcher at the Bank of Canada, explored how immigrant earnings compared with those of native workers across countries in a January Economic Synopses essay. This investigation into immigrant earnings is part of their broader analysis of immigrant labor.