Immigrants Drive Job Growth as Native-Born Employment Drops, Data Show
Study authors identified various reasons for this trend, such as the growing welfare state that can incentivize unemployment, direct competition with immigrants, and evolving social norms.
“The nation is in a sort of demographic autumn, and winter is coming,” they wrote in a July paper. “The retirement of the baby boomers and overall aging of the workforce, as well as low and falling birth rates mean population growth will become entirely dependent on immigration by 2040, as deaths of U.S.-born will outpace births.”