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Essential Workers: Immigrants are a Needed Supplement to the Native-Born Labor Force

An analysis of data from the 2000 census reveals that employment in about one-third of all U.S. job categories would have contracted during the 1990s in the absence of recently arrived, noncitizen immigrant workers.

Published On: Tue, Mar 01, 2005 | Download File [1]

Special Reports
Demographics
Immigration and Unemployment

Source URL: http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/special-reports/essential-workers-immigrants-are-needed-supplement-native-born-labor-force

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[1] http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/sites/default/files/docs/Essential Workers.pdf