Those are among the findings of a review of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census Bureau data conducted exclusively for Reuters by researchers at the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston.
Often young and unskilled or semi-skilled, immigrants have taken jobs Americans could do in areas like construction, willing to work for less wages. Others land jobs that unemployed Americans turn up their noses at or lack the skills to do.
With a national unemployment rate of 9.4 percent, domestic job creation is at the top of President Barack Obama's agenda and such findings could add to calls to tighten up on illegal immigration. But much of it is Hispanic and the growing Latino vote is a key base for Obama's Democratic Party.
Many of the new arrivals, according to employers, brought with them skills required of the building trade and found work in sectors such as construction, where jobless rates are high.
"Employers have chosen to use new immigrants over native-born workers and have continued to displace large numbers of blue-collar workers and young adults without college degrees," said Andrew Sum, the director of the Center for Labor Market Studies.
"One of the advantages of hiring, particularly young, undocumented immigrants, is the fact that employers do not have to pay health benefits or basic payroll taxes," said Sum.
From 2008 to 2010, 1.1 million new migrants who have entered America since 2008 landed jobs, even as U.S. household employment declined by 6.26 million over that same period.
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There are a lot of americans that don't realize our nation's economic system has now changed. Our new Country now has two different sets of economies. One - offline - and one on-line.
It really is a no-brainer once one weights the benefit analysis. Our government's continuing injection of regulations and burdensome reporting requirements on traditional employers have made our Country change in the way business is now conducted.
Most traditional employers have now gone underground or off-line in order to exist. It's a matter of eating or not eating. Unfortunately if a business tries to do everything by the book the odds are they'll go bankrupt anyway. That is what has necessitated the changes you are now witnessing.
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