Study to Determine Economic Impact of Immigrants – Nebraska

The Office of Latino/Latin American Studies (OLLAS) and the College of Business Administration (CBA) at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) have teamed up to conduct research and produce a report on the economic impact of immigration on the urban and rural economies of Nebraska. Christopher Decker, associate professor of economics, has been named Mammel Faculty in Residence with OLLAS and principal investigator for the project. Jerry Deichert, director of UNO’s Center of Public Affairs Research, will assist the project with census-based data.

The economic impact of immigration on Nebraska has been a matter of great speculation for a long time. Policy-makers and community agencies have often expressed the need for a rigorous assessment of such an impact which goes beyond anecdotal evidence. The research, a first of its kind in the state, is a major step toward filling this knowledge gap. “*

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