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Immigration and the U.S. Labor Force: Two New Studies Examine Economics of Immigration

Jobs Americans Don’t Do?Worse Than It SeemsOf the 465 civilian occupations, only four are majority immigrant. These four occupations account for less than one percent of the total U.S. workforce. Moreover, even in these four occupations, native-born Americans comprise 47% of workers.

Many jobs often thought to be overwhelmingly immigrant are in fact majority native-born: