Fed Study: Immigrants Don’t Steal American Jobs

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Fed Study: Immigrants Don’t Steal American Jobs
By Elise Foley 8/31/10 9:38 AM One of the major complaints against immigration — both legal and illegal — is that non-Americans take jobs that could be occupied by citizens during a time of high unemployment. But immigrants actually boost incomes and productivity over time, according to a paper released Monday by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. The study’s author found immigration has no “significant” effect on the number of jobs available to U.S.-born workers.
The main reason, economist Giovanni Peri argues, is that U.S. and immigrant workers tend to take different jobs, particularly because immigrants often face language barriers that make them less likely to take higher paying jobs requiring strong communication skills. This allows U.S.-born workers to shift toward these jobs, Peri writes.

Interestingly, this means lower language skills among immigrants actually help American workers, writes Kevin Drum at Mother Jones:


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[babylonsister]

1. Wow. This would blow a lot of minds if true and people bothered

to arm themselves with some facts.

[Hello_Kitty]

2. Well of course they don't because they've been turned into "jobs Americans won't do"

Most Americans won't work for subminimum wages in unsafe conditions for bosses that treat them like shit. Luckily, grinding poverty in other countries supplies those greedy fuckwads with an endless supply of poor, desperate, politically neutered workers who won't complain. Win-win!

Jesus Christ. Nativists are assholes but I swear to god cheap labor cheerleaders are almost as bad.

[Ian David]

3. "'Press One For English' Saves American Jobs." n/t