The Disparity between Immigrant Workers and Unemployed Natives
Washington, DC. The Immigration Policy Center (IPC) released a three-part report, Untying the Knot, which seeks to debunk the frequently misrepresented relationship between immigration and unemployment.
The reports, prepared by Rob Paral and Associates, examines data from the Census Bureau and found that there is no apparent relationship between the number of recent immigrants in a particular locale and the unemployment rate among native-born whites, blacks, Latinos, or Asians. Even now, at a time of economic recession and high unemployment, there is no correlation between the number of recent immigrant workers in a given state, county, or city and the unemployment rate among native-born workers.
The third final report, released the 19th August, reveals that unemployed natives and employed recent immigrants cannot simply be “swapped” for one another since unemployed natives and employed immigrants tend to have different levels of education, live in different parts of the country, and have experience in different occupations and different levels of work experience.
The report also shows that immigrants tend to fit into the labor force in areas where there are insufficient numbers of comparable native workers. In other words, removing immigrants would not automatically lead to job openings for natives.
Read the last report here (Part 3)
Read the previous reports here (Part 1, Part 2)
Read the previous post related: Immigration and Unemployment
Source: Immigration Policy Center
