06/09/2013
Unemployment ticked up to 7.6%, in May, according to the Payroll Survey. The economy created 175,000 jobs about the same average monthly job growth for the past year, but the labor force grew faster than employment. Nevertheless, the labor force participation rate for native-born Americans is lower this May than it was last May — signaling a lack of confidence in job prospects.
Immigrants, meanwhile, outpaced the native-born in jobs, participation rates, and unemployment reduction over the past 12 months. Remember that about 90,000 legal immigrants are admitted to the U.S. every month.
And among the native-born, Hispanics grabbed most of the new jobs.
The “other” employment survey, of households, shows a 319,000 job gain in May — the strongest showing since October 2012. The Household Survey now reports place of birth. For the third straight month, our analysis finds that native-born gained jobs at a faster pace than immigrants:
In May:
That May 2013 is an anomaly is made clear in our New VDARE.com American Worker Displacement Index (NVDAWDI). It tracks native-born and foreign-born employment growth for every month since the start of the Obama Administration:
Native-born employment growth is the blue line, immigrant employment growth is in pink, and NVAWDI — the ratio of immigrant to native-born job growth — is yellow. To chart American worker displacement, we set both the native-born and immigrant employment indexes in January 2009 at 100.0.
Since January 2009:
To put it another way, after four years of President Obama’s economic “recovery,” native-born employment has finally clawed its way back up to the same level it was on his (first) inauguration day. Immigrants are already way ahead.
The long-term trend of native-born worker displacement is seen in the table comparing the employment situation of native-born and immigrant workers in May 2013 and 2012:
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Employment Status by Nativity, May 2012-May 2013 (numbers in 1000s; not seasonally adjusted) |
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May-12 |
May-13 |
Change |
% Change |
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Foreign born, 16 years and older |
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Civilian population |
37,504 |
37,503 |
-1 |
0.0% |
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Civilian labor force |
24,878 |
24,958 |
80 |
0.3% |
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Participation rate (%) |
66.3% |
66.5% |
0.2% |
0.3% |
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Employed |
23,038 |
23,384 |
346 |
1.5% |
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Employment/population % |
61.4% |
62.4% |
1.0% |
1.6% |
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Unemployed |
1,840 |
1,574 |
-266 |
-14.5% |
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Unemployment rate (%) |
7.4% |
6.3% |
-1.1% |
-14.9% |
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Not in labor force |
12,625 |
12,545 |
-80 |
-0.6% |
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Native born, 16 years and older |
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Civilian population |
205,462 |
207,660 |
2,198 |
1.1% |
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Civilian labor force |
130,120 |
130,776 |
656 |
0.5% |
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Participation rate (%) |
63.3% |
62.9% |
-0.4% |
-0.6% |
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Employed |
119,689 |
121,048 |
1,359 |
1.1% |
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Employment/population % |
58.3% |
58.2% |
-0.1% |
-0.2% |
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Unemployed |
10,431 |
9,728 |
-703 |
-6.7% |
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Unemployment rate (%) |
8.0% |
7.4% |
-0.6% |
-7.5% |
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Not in labor force |
75,342 |
77,084 |
1,742 |
2.3% |
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Source: BLS, The Employment Situation — May 2013, June 7, 2013. Table A-7. PDF |
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Over the past 12 months:
In conclusion, one new point: While Hispanics accounted for 15.7% of total U.S. employment in May, the BLS report also shows they received an astounding 86% of the jobs created — 273,000 of the 319,000 total.
With immigrant job growth relatively small in May, we can safely conclude they were mainly native-born Hispanics — children or even grandchildren of immigrants. America’s post-1965 immigration disaster is metastasizing, at the expense of the historic America population, both white and black.
Edwin S. Rubenstein is President of ESR Research Economic Consultants in Indiana
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