New study highlights role of immigrants as job creators

A new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research finds that immigrants act more as “job creators” than “job takers” and that non-U.S. born founders play outsized roles in U.S. high-growth entrepreneurship.

“People want to think of immigrants as coming into the economy and maybe not having very many skills and not having a positive impact on the economy,” Benjamin Jones, a professor of strategy at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University involved in the study, told Newsweek, which reported on the study.

He also said that immigrants “start lots of companies at a much higher rate [than U.S.-born counterparts], but those companies actually tend to grow quite a lot.”