Title: Immigrants Create More Jobs Than They Take
Headings: Immigrants Create More Jobs Than They Take
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Immigrants Create More Jobs Than They Take
A positive impact
Entrepreneurial immigrants
High-quality jobs

Content: 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. By creating firms at a disproportionate rate, however, immigrants are net creators of jobs. High-quality jobs
The value of immigrants was further confirmed when the researchers explored the quality of jobs (and indeed companies) created by the immigrants. It emerged that firms created by immigrants tend to be more innovative than those created by native-born Americans (as measured by patents). This then translates into the wages those firms pay, with the higher quality of the firms themselves translating into higher wages for those people working at them. Whichever way you look at it, immigrants are beneficial to the economy, whether in terms of new jobs, well paying jobs, or the creation of innovative new firms.