Immigrant Labor, Staffing Shortages, and Job Quality in the Long-Term Care Sector

Nursing homes have long faced staffing shortages, which are exacerbated by low pay and poor working conditions. Increasing immigration and employing immigrant workers could be a remedy for these challenges. Economists Delia Furtado and Karen Shen, economist and legal scholar Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, and public policy scholars Krista Ruffini and Yulya Truskinovsky will investigate the impact of greater local availability of immigrant workers on nursing home staffing practices and job quality. They will analyze data from a number of data sources, including the Federal Pay-roll Based Journal and the American Community Survey for their study.