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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12810828
This tells that African immigrants are finding their home countries better than America. A simple observation linking immigration to the economic cycle is something really interesting.
There is not data in that article however, I noticed that illegal immigration also dropped:
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/artic...-immigration-stabilizes-after-a-two-year-drop
I just found something from 2003:
It seems like we are seeing similar behavior now.
Few of things I was mainly interested in is how economy gets affected when immigration slows down during poor economic growth, how fast immigration jumps when there is positive growth. Do government immigration policies consider these immigration cycles? I read today in some article that all presidents believe that immigration policies are outdated however there hasn't been significant overhaul.
This tells that African immigrants are finding their home countries better than America. A simple observation linking immigration to the economic cycle is something really interesting.
There is not data in that article however, I noticed that illegal immigration also dropped:
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/artic...-immigration-stabilizes-after-a-two-year-drop
I just found something from 2003:
http://www.dallasfed.org/research/swe/2003/swe0306a.pdfThe pace of recent U.S. economic
growth would have been impossible
without immigration. Since 1990, immigrants
have contributed to job growth in
three main ways: They fill an increasing
share of jobs overall, they take jobs in
labor-scarce regions, and they fill the
types of jobs native workers often shun.
The foreign-born make up only 11.3 percent
of the U.S. population and 14 percent
of the labor force. But amazingly,
the flow of foreign-born is so large that
immigrants currently account for a larger
share of labor force growth than natives
When employment is not growing—
largely the case since early 2001—immigration
naturally slows. The foreign-born
are both less apt to come and more
likely to leave when the U.S. economy is
doing poorly. Current Population Survey
data indicate that while the immigrant
population increased 6.1 percent between
2000 and 2001, it rose only 2
percent between 2001 and 2002.
It seems like we are seeing similar behavior now.
Few of things I was mainly interested in is how economy gets affected when immigration slows down during poor economic growth, how fast immigration jumps when there is positive growth. Do government immigration policies consider these immigration cycles? I read today in some article that all presidents believe that immigration policies are outdated however there hasn't been significant overhaul.
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