Study: Each new immigrant creates 1.2 new jobs

*Becasue the U.S. is primarily a service economy, and becasue in such an economy people create jobs, and given that immigrants are people (cosnsumers and providers of services), it makes sense that immigration creates jobs. Here’s a number: Each immigrant in the U.S. creates 1.2 jobs for local workers. This is a good article. VL

By Matthew Yglesias, Vox

Between 2000 and 2014, the population of the District of Columbia grew by more than 15 percent to 658,893. That influx of people has raised, and continues to raise, concerns of various kinds inside the city. But one thing nobody says is that the newcomers are “taking jobs” from longtime residents. That’s because it’s pretty obvious that the influx of new people is in fact increasing the number of jobs in the city. All those new residents want places to eat, places to buy toilet paper, places to get their hair cut, places to work out, and all the rest.

That logic is pretty obvious when we talk about movement within the United States of America, but as Gihoon Hong from Indiana University and John McLaren of the University of Virginia find in a new working paper, it also applies to international migration.

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