The Immigration Policy Data Hub is led by Dany Bahar (Center for Global Development and Brown University) and Greg Wright (UC Merced). The goal of the project is to show a pathway forward for migration policy linked to local labor demand, to inform local stakeholders about the need to design pragmatic and actionable policies based on evidence of local market dynamics. The tool is based on prior research, Bahar and Wright (2023), which put forward a method to estimate the number of new immigrants that U.S. regions will need to satisfy local labor market demand.

In its current form, the Immigration Policy Data Hub is a pilot site that we will expand into a larger resource that will provide more detailed visualizations of the immigration landscape while also serving as a hub to disseminate immigration research and policy insights across a number of cities, states, countries and regions.

If you are interested in knowing more about the project and contributing to it, please reach out to the principal investigators by emailing us.

This project originated with generous funding from Google.org and was originally incubated at the Brookings Institution.