Immigrants and Labor Force Trends: The Future, Past, and Present

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Author: 
Lowell, Lindsay B., Julia Gelatt, and Jeanne Batalova
Periodical: 
Task Force Insight No. 17
Year: 
2006
Month: 
July
Publisher: 
Independent Task Force on Immigration and America's Future, The
Description: 

The authors find that immigrants have been a driving force behind labor market growth in the United States in the past three decades. If immigration remains at current levels, immigrants and their children are projected to account for all growth in the US labor force between 2010 and 2030.

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