5. Foreign Nationals in Management and Financial Operations Occupations
8% and 3.5% of FBPs, as a percentage of the total FBP workforce, worked, respectively, in Management Occupations and Business and Financial Operations Occupations.
6. Foreign Nationals Have a Higher Labor Force Participation Rate than Native Born Persons
Interestingly enough, in 2014, the number of FBPs working as a total percentage of the FBP population in the U.S. (called the Labor Force Participation Rate) exceeded the participation rate of native born persons– 66% versus 62.3%.
To view the complete statistical schedule showing where foreign born persons were working in 2014, please refer to http://www.bls.gov/news.release/forbrn.t04.htm. For Explanatory Notes on the survey, please refer to .
The Take Away:
The data would seem to show that foreign nationals play a significant role in the U.S. economy across a wide range of occupations. More FBPs work as a percentage of the total FBP population than native born Americans, work in sectors many of which critically rely on foreign labor, and, in fact, have a large presence in many scientific occupations.
What is most disturbing about the current campaign season is how so many public policy declarations about immigration are backed up by so little data and how the media has been cheerleading spectacle and controversy as opposed to pressing candidates on the facts.
At the end of the day, effective immigration policies need to be built on a foundation of reasonable assumptions and solid data. This is not a principle apparently grasped by many of the current crop of candidates.
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