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By Edwin S. Rubenstein
December 02, 2005November's Job Numbers: Good for immigrants; Bad for the Rest of Us
U.S. job market sprang back last month from a hurricane-induced
slowdown as nonfarm employers added 215,000 workers, according to the
government's report on business payrolls.But another report -- the one based on a survey of households --
reported a 52,000 job decline from October. More important, from our
perspective, is the composition of that decline:Non-Hispanic employment fell by 183,000;
Hispanic employment rose by 131,000.
Thus non-Hispanics bore the full brunt of the November job decline,
according to the Household survey.To be sure, the Household survey is dismissed by MSM pundits as quirky
and unreliable. Yet over the past the past year it has closely tracked
the more widely cited Payroll Survey: Both surveys report that about 2
million jobs were created over the past 12 months. But only the
Household Survey presents monthly job data by race and ethnicity.Neither Survey asks about immigration status. (Memo to Bush
Administration: why not direct them to add this useful question?). But
because about half of the Hispanics in the U.S. are foreign-born, we
use it as a proxy for immigrant impact on American workers.Note this statistical wrinkle: the overall Hispanic unemployment rate
rose to 6.0 percent in November from 5.8 percent the prior month. The
black unemployment rate increased even more-to 10.6 percent from
October's 9.1. The white unemployment rate fell slightly, to 4.3
percent from 4.4 percent.The big difference, of course, was that Hispanics poured into the
labor force (their labor force participation rate went up) while
Blacks and whites retreated (their's went down.)After taking labor force participation rates into account, the real
increase in the black unemployed is larger, and the increase in the
Hispanic unemployed smaller, than their respective unemployment rates
indicate.In a word, November's data paint a classic picture of Hispanics (and,
by extension, immigrants) displacing and discouraging blacks and
unskilled whites in American labor force. It's a story we often tell
in graphic form, as follows:[SEE ABOVE URL FOR LINK TO VDARE.COM'S "AMERICAN WORKER DISPLACEMENT
INDEX" FOR JANUARY 2001 - NOVEMBER 2005]Since the start of the Bush Administration in January 2001 Hispanic
employment has risen by 2.9 million, or 17.8 percent, while
non-Hispanic employment increased by 1.9 million, or 1.6 percent.The ratio of the growth rates, which we call VDAWDI (the VDare.com
American Worker Displacement Index) rose to a record 116.0 in
November, from 115.0 the prior month.Edwin S. Rubenstein (email him) is President of ESR Research Economic
Consultants in Indianapolis.
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I suppose [censored]-Lips Bush will soon be touting the employment figures.
Anything that permits cheap labor to the detriment of middle-class
America.
John
http://www.fairus.org/ Federated Americans for Immigration Reform