The Boston Fed reports on the displacement of local nurses by foreign imports.  Importing foreign nurses has been used as a strategy to ease nursing shortages in the United States. The effectiveness of this policy critically depends on the long-run response of native-born nurses. It was examined how the immigration of foreign-born registered nurses (RNs) affects the occupational choice and long-run employment decisions of native RNs. Using a variety of empirical strategies that exploit the geographical distribution of immigrant nurses across U.S. cities, evidence was found of large displacement effects – over a 10-year period, for every foreign nurse that migrates to a city, between one and two fewer native nurses are employed in that city.  Foreign Nurses in US