Immigrant Workers and the Great American Job Machine The Contributions of New Foreign Immigration to National and Regional Labor Force Growth in the 1990s

The strong performance of U.S. labor markets during the 1990s was widely touted by many analysts. Frequent references were made to the Great American Job Machine. During this period the nation experienced the greatest wave of new foreign immigration in its history, with 14 million net new immigrants arriving between 1990 & 2000, many of them young & strongly attached to the labor market. This report identifies the quantitative contributions of recent immigrants to labor force growth in the U.S. & in individual geographic regions & states over the 1990-2001 period. The impacts of foreign immigration on national labor force growth in the 1990s were the highest in the entire 60 year period for which such labor force data are available. Charts & tables.Sum, Andrew is the author of 'Immigrant Workers and the Great American Job Machine The Contributions of New Foreign Immigration to National and Regional Labor Force Growth in the 1990s' with ISBN 9780756730550 and ISBN 0756730554.