Wave of Ukrainian women fuels record surge in immigrant employment
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Immigrant women are driving the U.S. labor market. Don Lee for the Los Angeles Times reports that migrants have long been an expanding part of the U.S. labor market, offsetting an aging population and other drags on labor market growth. Their labor participation compared to U.S.-born workers has accelerated since coming out of the pandemic, thanks to a return to more normal legal immigration and hundreds of thousands of refugees, including from Ukraine.
“People born outside the U.S. make up just 17.5% of the American working-age population, but foreign-born workers 16 years and older accounted for a whopping 64% of the nation’s labor force growth in the two-year period that ended in May, with women making an outsized contribution, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.”
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