{"id":2490,"date":"2016-09-06T12:59:04","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T11:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/expatriatus\/?p=2490"},"modified":"2016-09-07T16:09:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T15:09:27","slug":"immigrants-steal-jobs-or-should-we-listen-to-mr-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/expatriatus\/2016\/09\/06\/immigrants-steal-jobs-or-should-we-listen-to-mr-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Immigrants Steal Jobs\u2019 or \u2018Should We Listen to Mr. Trump?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"trump\"<\/a>As the rally for the U.S. presidency<\/strong> continues, Trump continues his anti-immigrant rhetoric<\/strong>, arguing that illegal immigrants<\/strong>, referring mostly to Mexican immigrants, take away jobs from struggling America\u2019s poor. Naturally, such sentiments built upon fear and a perception of scarce resources may work well with less informed or frustrated and worrying individuals, as we have witnessed with Brexit<\/a> for example.<\/p>\n

And some Trump supporters<\/a> give media plenty of reasons to doubt their factual intelligence and, at times, logical reasoning. Yet, let alone all the media bestselling stories and my personal opinion on Trump\u2019s campaign, I can follow what is a simple reasoning of, \u2018there are not enough jobs in the country, BUT foreigners come for these jobs as well, HENCE there is higher competition, AND they may take our jobs<\/em>\u2019. However, no important matter is that simple, and actual research-based facts reject such reasoning.<\/p>\n

Immigration<\/strong> Attorney Jason Finkelman argues<\/a> that the notion of immigrants<\/strong>\u2019 fault over a shortage of jobs is superficial. As per a recent report from the Bipartisan Policy Center, contrary to stealing jobs from the native-born population<\/strong>, data shows that immigrant workers<\/strong> actually complement the American labor force with a different set of skills<\/strong>. In other words, immigrants<\/strong> take up the jobs that need to be done, yet are not in the interest of the native population. As brought up in Mr. Finkelman\u2019s article, the superficial anti-immigrant logic is supported<\/strong> by the belief in a fixed number of jobs, which implies that \u2018if some job is taken by an immigrant, it cannot be taken by a native-born worker\u2019.<\/p>\n

Most economists however consider such belief a fallacy<\/a><\/strong>, holding that the amount of work is not static, and supporting the notion<\/a> that immigration<\/strong> helps the economy to grow, thus creating more jobs. Echoing this notion, Mr. Finkelman highlights that according to the aforementioned research \u2018immigrant workers<\/strong> are critical to supplementing the U.S. labor force, filling jobs that would otherwise remain vacant or disappear\u2019. Also, the report<\/a> on immigration by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce debunks several myths and provides factual information, including the fact that \u2018immigrants<\/strong> create jobs as entrepreneurs, consumers, and taxpayers\u2019 and that \u2018immigrants<\/strong> give a slight boost to the average wages of Americans\u2019.<\/p>\n

In a similar vein to scapegoating immigration <\/strong>for labor problems, Mr. Trump infamously blames illegal immigrants<\/strong> for violence. Although Trump believes that Mexico is not sending \u2018their best…\u2019 (although he assumes \u2018some are good people\u2019), fact-checking<\/a> these assumptions proves them once again inaccurate and superficial.<\/p>\n

All in all, while Trump\u2019s rhetoric might be loud, absolute and enraging<\/strong>, actual research and facts provide a more sobering view on these matters<\/strong>. Yes, migration-related violence and labor issues exist on a global scale, yet a narrow and superficial approach is unlikely to help here. Globally we need solutions that are far better than building \u2018beautiful\u2019 walls!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the rally for the U.S. presidency continues, Trump continues his anti-immigrant rhetoric, arguing that illegal immigrants, referring mostly to Mexican immigrants, take away jobs from struggling America\u2019s poor. Naturally, such sentiments built upon fear and a perception of scarce resources may work well with less informed or frustrated and worrying individuals, as we have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18330],"tags":[96610,96609,96607,25660,96606,96608,96605,90250,96611],"class_list":["post-2490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-views-and-news-about-expatriates","tag-anti-immigrant-rhetoric","tag-illegal-immigrants","tag-immigrant-workers","tag-immigration","tag-lump-of-labor-fallacy","tag-native-born-population","tag-shortage-of-jobs","tag-trump","tag-u-s-presidency","megacategoria-mc-leadership-and-people-management"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t