The Geography of Immigrant Skills: Educational Profiles of Metropolitan Areas

This report is from the Brookings Institution on immigrant skills and the labor market. Immigrants are now about 14 percent of U.S residents and about 16 percent of workers and have a significant presence in industries such as construction and hospitality on the low-skill end, and information technology and health care on the high-skill end. Authors argue that it is important to understand the immigrant workforce in the context of long-term U.S global competitiveness, and provide a profile of immigrant skills in the top 100 metropolitan areas in the U.S.