Linking immigration and job growth...Sacramento Bee.com
December 6, 2005 Amajor piece of conventional wisdom about immigrants – that newcomers take jobs away from native Americans – has been questioned in a new study of urban job growth by a Harvard Business School professor and expert on inner-city economics. The study, in fact, seems to show just the opposite: Cities with higher concentrations of immigrants are the places where the number of jobs is growing the fastest. The research by Michael E. Porter, founder of the Initiative for a Competitive... Sign in to see full entry.