How Immigrants Create More Jobs

This study explains that the surplus of immigrants here encourages businesses to hire them and then they do not send jobs offshore. There is no need to outsource if they can find workers here for the lower skilled jobs. - - Donna Poisl

By TYLER COWEN

IN the campaign season now drawing to a close, immigration and globalization have often been described as economic threats. The truth, however, is more complex.

Over all, it turns out that the continuing arrival of immigrants to American shores is encouraging business activity here, thereby producing more jobs, according to a new study. Its authors argue that the easier it is to find cheap immigrant labor at home, the less likely that production will relocate offshore.
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