"Study: Immigrant Influx Harms Young Workers; Employment Declines as Immigrants Arrive"

Posted Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 11:14 am
From this press release:
A new study, authored by economists at Northeastern University and published by the Center for Immigration Studies, finds that young native-born workers are being displaced in the labor market by immigrants. Although one recent report by a Washington think tank found no relationship between immigration and native employment, that study did not focus on young workers who are often in direct competition with immigrants and are the ones most adversely affected.

The report, titled "The Impact of New Immigrants on Young Native-Born Workers, 2000-2005," is available on line at www.cis.org/articles/2006/back806.html.

Among the findings:

-- Between 2000 and 2005, 4.1 million immigrant workers arrived from abroad, accounting for 86 percent of the net increase in the total number of employed persons (16 and older), the highest share ever recorded in the United States.

-- Of the 4.1 million new immigrant workers, between 1.4 and 2.7 million are estimated to be illegal immigrants.

-- Between 2000 and 2005, the number of young (16 to 34) native-born men who were employed declined by 1.7 million; at the same time, the number of new male immigrant workers increased by 1.9 million...

Comments

eh (not verified)

Fri, 09/22/2006 - 07:07

A not uninteresting article, but insipid, even childish in its tone, as so many of them are.

Pat (not verified)

Fri, 09/22/2006 - 06:52

Yet the media ignore the facts and continue to give us puff pieces, like this one about a US citizen who also works for the Mexican government, helps "possibly abused" scofflaws, and caps clients for cheesy PI attorneys.

Puff Piece of the Day

eh (not verified)

Fri, 09/22/2006 - 00:37

...young native-born workers are being displaced in the labor market by immigrants.

If you define "young" as teenage, anyone who's been in a fast food restaurant since the 70's has seen evidence of that.

Fred Dawes (not verified)

Thu, 09/21/2006 - 12:24

the political fact is the rats want millions of new so called workers here, the fact is within 10 to 20 years whites will not be allowed to work in the so called USA for defacto reasons ask why would a hispanic mexican or a black and other groups want a white person working when the real political reason is to remove whites from this world if you know what i mean?

if you think that is evil just look at what happened at the U.N. Today.

fact whites make up only 12 percent of the worlds population, think about what will happen to your kids under hispanic rule and look at all hispanic country before you call me a pig for saying the facts of death and life.