Title: Immigrants Create More Jobs Than They Take
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Content: This data was then combined with W-2 records from the founding year of each firm to determine the founding team, with Census data then used to understand whether the founders were immigrants or not. This was used to calculate comparative business creation rates for immigrants and American-born people. Finally, this data was augmented with a Census analysis of the Fortune 500 in 2017 to allow researchers an insight into the biggest firms in the economy at that time. "One very large company employs far more people than a large number of relatively small companies," the researchers explain. " So we went through all the Fortune 500 companies using teams of research assistants, who traced back to the origin of the company to see who the founders were and whether they were U.S.-born or immigrants.” Entrepreneurial immigrants
Across all of the datasets, immigrants were clearly more likely to create a business than native-born Americans. For example, whereas 0.83% of immigrants in the workforce created a business between 2005 and 2010, just 0.46% of native-born Americans did likewise. A similar trend was observed among Fortune 500 companies. This greater entrepreneurial proficiency endured for small firms and large firms (and everything in between), which helps to underline the positive impact immigrants are having on the whole economy, especially in terms of the jobs that are created in these businesses, but also in the wages they pay. Indeed, if immigrants were behaving like Americans, their income on wages for the typical American would be negligible because the number of firms created would be canceled out by the number of new workers in the economy.