New Study: Immigrants Create More Jobs

ATLANTA, GA, November 11, 2010

Atlanta immigration lawyer Karen Weinstock reports regarding a recently published study "Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs", published by two economics professors at Bocconi University in Italy and the University of California, Davis, which concludes that the continuing arrival of immigrants to America is encouraging business activity, thereby producing more jobs to the overall economy.

"The study shows that when companies move production offshore, they take away not only low-wage jobs but also many related jobs, which include high-skilled managers, tech repairmen and others. When companies hire immigrants even for low-wage jobs, they usually keep the operations in the United States, which includes many other positions thereby keeping more jobs in the U.S.", said Karen Weinstock, Atlanta immigration attorney and the managing attorney of the Atlanta Immigration Law Firm Siskind Susser.

"In fact, the study shows that when immigrant workforce is rising as a share of employment in an economic sector, off-shoring tends to be falling, and vice versa. Thus, off-shoring is much worse to the American economy than immigrants, who create more jobs or keep more jobs here", said Weinstock, the Atlanta immigration law attorney.


"The study found that American economic sectors that have larger exposure to immigrant workforce fared better in employment growth than those who had lesser exposure, even for those sectors who mainly use low-skilled labor", said Weinstock, the Atlanta immigration attorney.

"While few would disagree that highly educated and skilled workers enhance U.S. competitiveness and contribute to the economy, this study shows that even the lower-skilled immigrants fill gaps in American labor markets and generally enhance domestic business prospects rather than destroy jobs. That is because of the lower paid immigrants being "complementary" workers, who add value to the work of others", said the head of the Atlanta Immigration Law Firm.

"For example, when an immigrant takes a job as a construction worker, a drywall installer, usually a native-born worker ends up being promoted to supervisor", added the Atlanta immigration lawyer.

"Also, as immigrants succeed here, they help the U.S. develop stronger business relations with other counties (for example in Asia and Latin America), where it is easier for American company that employ foreign workers to build business ties because of language, culture and other capabilities that come with hiring foreign workers, again creating more jobs here", concluded the Atlanta immigration attorney.

Siskind Susser is one of the largest immigration law firms in North America and its attorneys have experience handling all aspects of American immigration and nationality law . Siskind Susser also can assist clients with immigration matters outside the US.