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Labor Market Implications

The impact of immigration on labor market growth, comparing Brookings and Congressional Budget Office projections.

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Jan 26, 2026
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How do CBO and Brookings differ in assumptions when projecting the macroeconomic impact of reduced immigration?

and the diverge chiefly on underlying population tallies, assumed outflow rates for recent arrivals, and whether (and how) to fold immigration-driven productivity gains into macro projections; Brookin...

Feb 3, 2026

How have CBO and Brookings projections about immigration-driven GDP and employment changed since 2021?

Since 2021 the revised its demographic baseline sharply upward to reflect an unprecedented post‑2020 , and those revisions have lifted CBO’s projections of and while also changing the presumed pace of...