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The estimates of the economic gains of an inclusive immigration reform we present here are conservative and focus on the regularization of immigrant workers who currently reside in the United States; however, the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 and other legislative proposals would also provide a path for increased legal immigration, which would also improve economic efficiency and result in higher GDP growth, tax revenues, job creation, and international remittances. Therefore, a more complete estimate of the economic impact of the U.S. Citizenship Act would account for increased legal immigration. This increased immigration could produce additional GDP gains of $957 billion over 10 years (assuming the arrival of 700,000 authorized immigrants per year). Remittances to Mexico and Central America are estimated to produce a total flow of $1.2 trillion, resulting in increased U.S. exports to the region as well as increased savings which can be used to address root causes of outmigration as called for in the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021. However, we do not address remittances or projected flows of new migration in this brief.

This report examines the state informal workers organizing in the domestic and construction sectors in China, India, Mexico, South Africa, South Korea, and the United States. The study found that regardless of the sector or nation, by banding together, informal workers have been successful in expanding their rights and building power.

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Media Inquiries: Citlalli Chávez-Nava, 310-562-0943, citlallichavez@ucla.edu

The report tracked film and television diversity data since 2014, making the study the most comprehensive record of the industry’s progress on diversity hiring.

This is the seventh in a series of annual reports to examine relationships between diversity and the bottom line in the Hollywood entertainment industry. Part 1, which focuses on 2018 and 2019 Hollywood theatrical films, was released in February 2020. This report, Part 2, considers the latest two television seasons since the previous Hollywood Diversity Report release — the 2017-18 and 2018-19 seasons. It examines 453 scripted broadcast, cable and digital platform television shows from the 201718 season and 463 such shows from 2018-19 in order to document the degree to which women and people of color are present in front of and behind the camera. It discusses any patterns between these findings and conventional and social media audience ratings.

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Barbra Ramos, bramos@stratcomm.ucla.edu; Willa Needham, willaneedham@ucla.edu

Health disadvantages stem from unsafe occupational conditions and an overlapping array of adverse social experiences. These findings highlight the need to develop and evaluate policies that protect all workers regardless of socioeconomic position and immigration status.

This brief summarizes, contextualizes, and addresses the policy implications of research reported in “Employer Aversion to Criminal Records: An Experimental Study of Mechanisms,” by N. F. Sugie, N. D. Zatz, and D. Augustine, Criminology, 58(1).

This paper addresses how interest associations have responded to the entry of digital-platform corporations into taxi and limousine markets; whether and why interest associations have regarded the market-disrupting strategies of these corporations as a unifying threat or as an opportunity to pursue and enforce their particularistic interests; and what role existing associational fields play in shaping interest associations’ responses.

This research project, led by IRLE director Chris Tilly, looks at variations and change in retail job quality in the US in the context of global comparisons with Mexico and several European countries, including Denmark, France, Germany and the Netherlands.

This report is the seventh in a series of annual studies produced by UCLA’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) to explore relationships between diversity and the bottom line in the Hollywood entertainment industry. The Division of Social Sciences’s Hollywood Advancement Project, from which this report series stems, has three primary goals: 1) to generate comprehensive research analyses of the inclusion of diverse groups in film and television, including lead roles, writing, directing, producing, and talent representation; 2) to identify and disseminate best practices for increasing the pipeline of underrepresented groups into the Hollywood entertainment industry; and 3) to consider the broader implications of diverse industry access and media images for society as a whole

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Barbra Ramos, bramos@stratcomm.ucla.edu; Willa Needham, willaneedham@ucla.edu

Examined through the lens of both the Declaration of Human Rights and the U.S. Constitution, this study encourages discussion surrounding ensuring quality education and teacher labor protections as human rights in the hopes of bringing justice and change to classrooms.