Thread: Immigrant Influx Harms Young Workers

Immigrant Influx Harms Young Workers

Study: Employment Declines as Immigrants Arrive

The report, entitled, The Impact of New Immigrants on Young Native-Born Workers, 2000-2005, is embargoed until Thursday, September 21, 2006 at 9:30 am. Advance copies are available to the media.

The study will be available online at www.cis.org.

WASHINGTON (September 2006) -- A new study authored by economists at Northeastern University and published by the Center for Immigration Studies finds that the arrival of new immigrants (legal and illegal) in a state is accompanied by a decline in employment among young native-born workers in that state. This indicates that immigration is displacing young native-born workers in the labor market. Although one recent report by another Washington think tank found no relationship between immigration and the troubling recent decline in the employment of the native-born, that study did not focus on young workers, who are often in direct competition with immigrants and are the ones most adversely affected.

These findings are particularly troubling because a person’s early work experience – or lack thereof – has a significant impact on their performance in the labor market later in life. It is when young that people learn the skills necessary to successful employment, such as punctuality and taking direction from supervisors.


For more information, contact Andrew Sum at (617) 373-2242, Paul Harrington at (617) 373-2243, or Steven Camarota at (202) 466-8185 or sac@cis.org.

Anyone w/ teenagers trying to get a job can attest to this.
Illegals are making it more and more difficult for American kids to even get the simplest jobs.

I have an observation which is that people generally wait to have children until they can support them in the quality of life they were brought up in.

I think illegal immigration has a pernicious effect which is that as more illegals enter the job market wages for the jobs drop. The American workers delay having children so they can support them right.

The illegals having come from a poorer economy start raising their families at lower incomes compared with Americans because the quality of life they are accustomed to is simpler.

In the end the Americans are being taxed to involuntarily replace themselves as America's population.

Immigrants need to stop bring in relatives and instead start supporting job creation in their home countries