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As it is aforesaid immigrants take away jobs from natives, merely it is proved to be untrue. A new research by National Foundation for American Policy, by Madeline Zavodny shows that immigrants do not increase the unemployment rate of natives, nor lower the labor force participation rate of natives, rather it appears the apposite may be the case.

Zavodny used a state-level analysis to research the impact of immigrants for the yaer 2005-13. The study found that, having more immigrants overall does not significantly affect U.S. natives unemployment or labor force participation rate.

Zavodny Further explained the proved elements saying, the first reason being, “Immigrants may boost consumer demand, start their own businesses, and reduce offshoring of manual-labor intensive jobs in the U.S.,” and second ground being  immigrants tend to work in different sectors, in different parts of the country and even in different parts of the labor market within a state, which limits some of the competition with natives.”

Third, some natives adjust to additional immigrants by shifting into different types of jobs. “Research shows that U.S. natives tend to move into communications-intensive jobs in response to an inflow of immigrants (Peri and Sparber, 2009, 2011),” according to Zavodny. “This occurs at both the top and bottom of the skill distribution. Further, the jobs that U.S. natives move into tend to be higher paying than the jobs disproportionately filled by immigrants.”

Giovanni Peri, Chairperson of Economics Department at the University of California, looked through 20 years of empirical research and concluded, “There is little evidence of immigration lowering wages of less educated native workers.”

The reality and illustrations are intelligibly concluded in Madeline Zavodny’s research giving a little ease to native-born masses.

By Sowmya Sangam