Immigrants not cause of high unemployment in U.S., says study (6)

Immigrants create jobs as consumers and entrepreneurs, the study shows. Immigrant workers spend their wages in U.S. businesses-buying food, clothes, appliances, cars, etc. Businesses respond to the presence of these new workers and consumers by investing in new restaurants, stores, and production facilities. And immigrants are 30 percent more likely than the native-born to start their own business. The end result is more jobs for more workers.

Peri concluded that "immigrants expand the U.S. economy's productive capacity, stimulate investment, and promote specialization that in the long run boosts productivity," and " there is no evidence that these effects take place at the expense of jobs for workers born in the United States."

Source: Xinhua
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