I've been meaning to post that the paper that Jeff Grogger, Gordon Hanson and I wrote on the impact of immigration on the African-American community is now in final form. Here is the abstract:
The employment rate of black men, and particularly of low-skill black men, fell precipitously from 1960 to 2000. At the same time, their incarceration rate rose. This paper examines the relation between immigration and these trends in employment and incarceration. Using data from the 1960-2000 U.S. Censuses, we find that a 10-percent immigration-induced increase in the supply of workers in a particular skill group reduced the black wage of that group by 2.5 percent, lowered the employment rate by 5.9 percentage points, and increased the incarceration rate by 1.3 percentage points.
(1999)
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