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Friday, December 3, 2010

Unemployment Statistics

There are some numbers out there that suggest, over the long term, that groups may not always form up in terms of ethnicity, at least not in a challenging economy.

The PEW Research Center has this item, "After the Great Recession: Foreign Born Gain Jobs; Native Born Lose Jobs".  This is from the Pew Hispanic Center.

Looking at Caucasians, the loss of jobs was "986,000 jobs from the second quarter of 2009 to the second quarter of 2010, and their unemployment rate increased from 7.7% to 8.0%".  And, not stated, but women did better than men in holding or getting jobs.

Looking at Blacks
Employment for native-born blacks decreased by 142,000 in the first year of the recovery and increased by 81,000 for foreign-born blacks.  The unemployment rate for native-born blacks increased from 15.4% to 16.3%; for immigrant blacks, it decreased from 11.4% to 10.7%.
That means, to me, that Black immigrants are bringing skill sets and work values to this nation that are not found amongst those Blacks who were born here.  Is this just a quirk in time and space or a long term trend?  If it is a long term trend it is a bad indicator for economic success of the community and of individuals.  It also raises questions about the role of parents and schools.

Looking at Hispanics, the numbers played this way:
Employment among Hispanics increased by 392,000 from the second quarter of 2009 to the second quarter of 2010.  All of the gains accrued to foreign-born Hispanics their employment increased by 435,000.

The unemployment rate for foreign-born Hispanics decreased from 11.0% in the second quarter of 2009 to 10.1% in the second quarter of 2010. At the same time, the unemployment rate for native-born Hispanics increased from 12.9% to 14.0%.
It appears that Hispanic immigrants are pushing US born Hispanics out of jobs (not that there is a one for one job swap, but in a macro sort of way).  If this kind of information gains currency it will cause a riff between foreign born and US born Hispanics.  Solidarity is a lot harder to embrace when you and the kids you grew up with are out of work.

But, in this, we should keep in mind that this long recession (the Great Recession in the words of PEW), it is individuals who are being hurt.  That Black male youths are being hurt most of any group just makes it more troublesome, but everyone seeking a job and not finding it within a few weeks or months is a tragedy.  It is worse if they move back to their parents' home.  :-)

Regards  —  Cliff

2 comments:

JoeS said...

Interesting, but not all that surprising when you think of it - the immigrant minorities are coming here primarily to find work, so it is work they search out. The lack of such incentive by the native born minorities is the task that must be addressed.

C R Krieger said...

Exactly as Joe says.

Regards  —  Cliff