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The Effects of Legal Immigration on The US Labor MarketThang NguyenWidener University

Abstract(Do not indent this text) According to CNN (an article is missing before CNN) report on February 18th,(the APA manual/guide prohibits the use of th, nd, st, etc.) 2015, President Barrack Obama claimed that America's immigration issue needs a comprehensive and permanent legislative solution because legal immigration has caused many effects.(this is not clearwhat type of effects needs to be indicated) Therefore, the impacts of immigration must (word choice issue) be significantly researched in order to seek (word choice issue) the most feasible solutions. Through analyzing and working on (this is unclear) the information of the (incorrect use of an article) past studies, this study examined the effects of legal immigration on the US labor market. This study is aimed at American workers and those who have shallow understanding of what the legal immigration certainly brings to the labor market of the US. (sentence structure issue) The research has indicated that a constant inflow of immigrants both aggravates and benefits the US labor market on various aspects. (this is unclear) American workers, especially low-skilled blue-collar workers, have been driven to the verge of job losses and unemployment tress (word choice issue) because low-skilled legal immigrants are willing to work under low working conditions and low wages. (structure issue) In contrast, legal immigrants have contributed to the creativity of jobs for American workers. Overall, there is little evidence to prove that legal immigration negatively affects the US labor market. Therefore, this research suggests that more studies on negative impacts of legal immigration be conducted in the future for the (incorrect use of an article) accurate and precise interpretation. GRADE = 8.5/10

The Effects of Legal Immigration on The US Labor MarketIn recent years, immigration has become an increasingly heated controversy across the world, especially in the US. Most American people have said (what is the source of this information) that immigrants take job opportunities away from native-born workers and contribute to wage reductions. Eric and Matthew (2011) argued that the existence of illegal and legal immigrants prevents Americans from seeking jobs and makes employers extremely dependent on foreign-born workers. In addition, the enormous native and authorized foreign-born, low-skilled workforce allows employers to offer low-paying jobs (Eric & Matthew, 2011). Conversely, some experts (Orrenius & Zavodny, 2013; Adam, 2010) (I could not find this source in your references) on the US labor market have argued that legal immigrants can fill unwanted and low-wage jobs. These immigrants do not have negative impacts on wages of native workers and not (verb structure issue) reduce job opportunities; the authorized immigrants are possibly considered a positive force of economic growth (Immigration Is, 2013). (I could not find this source in your references) In the past 20 years, most of the experts (give some examples of these experts) have struggled with finding the truth of the effects of legal immigration on the US labor market; however (word choice issue), they still have not found the final answers for immigration issues. Most people do not deny that legal immigration might create labor market competition during economic hard times in USA; yet, legal immigration comes with a wide range of positive and negative effects. Statistically, the number of legal immigrants rose from 25 million in 1996 to 40 million in 2011, representing 13 percent of the total US population (Orrenius & Zavodny, 2013). Statistics (what is the source of these statistics) indicate that the number of authorized foreign-born workers underwent a great incline during the (word choice issuethis) 14-year period. The impacts of legal immigration on the US market are not easily identified because the flow of illegal and legal immigrants in (an article is missing) U.S.A has recently rocketed (word choice issue). Authorized immigrants may not cause any sizeable decrease in wages and employment of the US citizens (Card, 2005) and foreign-born workers may raise wages of native-born workers (Peri & Giovanni, 2009). (I could not find this source in your references) Legal immigrants and American workers do not pursue the same job because they have different skills, cultures, educational levels, and job orientations. (what is the source of this information) In some industries, such as manufacturing and housing industries, which have undergone a dearth of physical workforce, legal immigrants were considered a necessary and suitable source that enlarges the US economy growth (Immigration Is, 2013). Orrenius and Zavodny (2013) suggested that although legal immigrants made up only 16 percent of the U.S. workforce, they accounted for a much larger share of the countrys growth. Specifically, more than half of the increase in the U.S. labor force between 1996 and 2010 was dependent on legal and illegal (because legal and illegal are combine, it is difficult to determine which group had what effect) immigration growth (Orrenius & Zavodny, 2013). Furthermore, the researchers also claimed that if legal immigrants are less skillful or their skill compositions are unlike those of American workers, they will be complementary to local workers. The idea is that immigrants and residents mutually supply what the other lacks.According to a report by Eric A. Ruark and Matthew Graham (2011), (this source is not correctly entered in the references) a majority of economists substantiated that the poor native workers face with negative consequences of legal immigration because authorized immigrants compete with native workers on all educational levels. (structure issue) The below-mentioned report (this is unclear) also explained that legal immigration makes contribution to a current surplus of low-skilled workers, which increases job competition and decreases wages and work conditions to the detriment of poor and low-skilled American workers (Eric & Matthew, 2011). Jack Martin and Eric A. Ruak (2010) requested (word choice issue) that the presence of 8.4 million low-educated and low-skilled immigrants depresses wages and working conditions for the low-skilled native-born workers. The purpose of this research is presented (word choice issuenot needed) to evaluate how the (incorrect use of an article) legal immigration effects the US labor market and find evidences to make (word choice issuethe purpose of research is not to force anyone to do anything; research simply presents the facts and allow readers to arrive at their own conclusions) American workers more aware of the two-sided effects of legal immigration.

Positive Effects of Legal Immigration in The USMany American workers are concerned that legal immigrants who have not officially been authorized as permanent residents are willing to work in low-wage jobs, limited benefits, no health insurance, and no tax claims, (structure issue) which possibly make (word choice issue) local employers or business owners reduce the US-born workforce to hire foreign-born workers (Zavodny & Jacoby, 2013). Furthermore, most people concluded that there is an inevitable downturn in the earnings of the US workers while there is a surplus of labor-force due to the constant movement of legal immigrants to USA (Michael & Adam, 2013). However, the negative positions are no longer the case with the immigration issue in the US because a great number of findings from some previous studies are provided to prove that there is no point in continuing the argument between the US residents and authorized immigrants. (what is the source of this information?) Specifically, a study by Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney (2013) indicated that the legal immigration in the US do (subject/verb agreement issue) not create negative influences on the earnings of native workers since American and legal immigrant workers could complement each other rather than vie for the same jobs. There are some reasons that explain why they do not have tendency to compete for the (incorrect use of an article) similar occupations. First of all, (do not use this expression in APA style papers) legal immigrants and US-born workers themselves (word choice issuethis is redundant) do not possess the same skill compositions and occupational orientations. A report (The American Enterprise Institute) (is this the title of the report?) by Madeline Zavodny and Tamar Jacoby (2013) stated that more than half of legal immigrants who plan to work and settle in USA are not skillful and have low educational levels. Hence, they are partly offered jobs not requiring analysis and technical skills, while American workers work in jobs that require many professional skills of communication, analysis, technology, and management (Zavodny & Jacoby, 2013). (how does this information align with that of low-skilled native workers presented previously) Since 1970, the educational levels of American workers have dramatically advanced validate the info - examples and they tend to apply for high-skilled jobs so low-skilled jobs can easily be left for legal immigrant workers (Zavodny & Jacoby, 2013). (how is this information reconciled with the evidence that in the US a college education in 2002 was equivalent to a high school education in 1972 and that the overall rating for US primary and secondary education (especially in the maths and sciences) has declined from 1st to 26th position?) Differences in educational levels between authorized immigrants and US-born workers are not only a single explanation, (this is not clear) but advantages in specific abilities also lead to less (an article is missing) competitive labor market. For example, low-skilled immigrants have abilities to properly work in manufacturing, maintenance, landscaping, construction, and (an article is missing) food industry, which require physical strength, brawn and stamina (Zavodny & Jacoby, 2013). On the contrary, American workers find themselves productive when they work in the fields related to sales, administration and management (Zavodny & Jacoby, 2013). Zavodny and Jacoby (2013) repetive citation )also explained that language plays an important role in proving (that) immigrants not to take (structure issueverb required) jobs from the US workers due to the reason that the (wordy) legal foreign-born workers cannot use spoken and written English language better than native workers can. (was this intended for all jobs as implied here?) Data from The American Community Survey (2014) (I cannot find this source in your references) is provided (verb structure issue) that one in five low-skilled immigrants speaks mother tongue, (this is not clear) and four in five cannot speak and use English well. Those who come from English-speaking countries are more capable of properly handling and understanding almost all technical terminologies regarding the fields in which native workers work. Conversely, legal immigrants who cannot speak English well seem not to work with technical terms properly. (misplaced modifier) Zavodny & Jocoby (2013) suggested that another reason that proves legal immigration not to lead (verb structure issue) to competitiveness between American and authorized immigrant workers is geography. Geographic distribution of legal immigrants in (an article is missing) USA is described (structure issue) that newcomers chiefly live in or across the (incorrect use of an article) areas where they can find the (word choice issue) fellow countrymen because residing in a group of people who have similar cultures, languages, traditional customs and (a comma is missing) living styles is easier and quicker for new comers to get accustomed to new changes (structure issue) (Zavodny & Jocoby, 2013). (is the inference that immigrants form a particular country only locate in one area of the country?) As for native workers, both low-skilled and high-skilled American workers tend to move across the country for job opportunities and do not concentrate on (incorrect preposition) only one place (Zavodny & Jocoby, 2013). Because of various job orientations, skill-sets, geographic distributions and abilities of (incorrect preposition) language use, authorized immigrants do not have a part in increasing labor market competition and negatively influencing wages of the US workers (how accurate is this statement? Doe is seem logical to add anything new to a situation and not have any effect?) (Zavodny & Jocoby, 2013). In addition to the issue of wage reductions, American workers also become worried that legal immigrants possibly take place (structure issue) of the US workers. According to (an article is missing) Center for American Progress, legal immigrants do not substitute American workers for some persuasive reasons. First of all, (do not use this phrase in APA style papers) a new report from the Partnership for a New American Economy (2011) found that wealthy authorized immigrants from China, Japan, Italy, and etc. (incorrect structure) have founded over 350 companies that require huge workforce (a numerical value should be provided) and create (tense issue) openings (what type of openings) in the US. Especially (word choice issue), Forbes Company (2013) reported that there are about 500 Fortune companies, including P&G, Pfizer, USsteel, Ebay, and Google, were established by authorized immigrants from the late 1800s to the early 1900s and more than 40 percent of the largest American companies belong to legal immigrants and their next generations. (how does 200 years ago relate to current conditions? Are legal immigrants establishing this number of companies in the 21st Century?) In terms of Forbess calculations, these huge companies could generate 2.8 million job openings in USA, for which majority of American workers have currently been working. (Is this present or past tense? Some of the companies that were established in the 1800 & 1900 have ceased to exist long ago) According to The 2010 American Community Survey by the US Census Bureau, 900 thousand small, medium and large businesses (restaurants, coffee shops, grocery stores, markets, and others) that are equivalent to 18 percent of all US businesses are under possession of legal foreign-born employers or owners. This survey estimated that each business employed 9 to 10 staff and then (word choice issue), these businesses generated from 3.7 million to 5.2 million jobs. (to accurately use this information, a breakdown of the types of jobs and wages paid for these jobs is required. Justificationmany of the jobs in restaurants, coffee shops, and cafes pay below minimum wage and expect the servers to make up the difference in tips.) (an article is missing) Americas Society and Council of The Americas (AS/COA) revealed that legal immigrants play an important role in fostering the US manufacturing industry to create more jobs and to maintain current manufacturing jobs in USA. (how is this accomplished?) A report by AS/COA in 2013 indicated that over the last 40 years, legal immigrants have helped to keep manufacturing jobs more greatly than the US government has expected. (structure issue) Statistically, 46 manufacturing jobs are created when 1,000 legal foreign-born workers live in a county of the US. (what is the source of this information) In 2013, 40 million foreign-born residents in the US totally contribute to retention of 1.8 million manufacturing jobs, which is about 15 percent of all employment remaining in the sector. (structure issue & what is the source of this information) It is obvious (this is not a phrase that should be used in research writing) that foreign-born residents are having an advantageous impact on the manufacturing field in the United States. Additionally, according to a report entitled 2011 Popular by SurveyUnited States Bureau, (I cannot find this source in your references) legal immigrants became self-employed or opened small grocery stores, restaurants, nail salons and many more types of businesses where they worked as both employers and employees. Beside (word choice issue) the creation of job opportunities, legal immigrants are also considered a potential factor that help build up economic growth of the US, including housing market in particular. (are job opportunities not a part of economic growth) A report by AS/COA (date is missing & I cannot find this source in your references) predicted (because this is a prediction, what is the evidence that this prediction is valid?) that when one legal immigrant comes to a community, he or she could bring a 12 percent increase in the average price of housing. This report also stated that in the US, a community consists of approximately 800,000 housing units, so the total amount of housing property in this country increased by 96,000 dollars. From such calculation, legal immigrants could contribute about 3,840 billion dollars to the US housing market. (what is the evidence that this is the average for all of the US?) Legal immigrants are also regarded as a source that accelerates the US housing market because vacant or unpaid houses can lead to a serious drop in housing prices and freeze the housing market during economic hard times while authorized immigrants and their families are looking for houses could purchase these houses. (sentence structurethis is a run-on sentence) Legal immigrants increasingly move to (an article is missing) USA and demand for more houses, which helps construction industry in the US develop and create jobs for this industry. (what is the source of this information)

Negative Effects of Legal Immigration in The USEric A. Ruark and Matthew Graham (2011) analyzed (word choice issue) that in unskilled or low-skilled industries (farming, landscaping, driving, construction, machine operations, and etc. (incorrect use of a conjunction)), the poor and unskilled native workers commonly suffer from burden of critical competition because legal immigrants to USA, who are partly unskilled, are more likely to undercut the wages and job opportunities of low-killed native workers than those of high-skilled workers. (structure issue) According to the (incorrect use of an article) analysis of (an article is missing) 25 largest cities in America, legal immigrant wages were gained less than 10 percent of native worker wages in high-skilled industry groups, for example health-care, technology, administration, and education; yet, legal immigrant workers earned over 10 percent of American worker wages in unskilled groups (sentence structure) (as cited in Eric & Matthew, 2011, p. 8-9). George Borjas concluded that the legal and illegal immigration drove down wages for the 10 percent of the un-skilled American workers by 7.4 percent between 1980 and 2000; and if legal and illegal immigration rate keeps on and adds to copious unskilled workers, negative outcomes for poor and low-skilled native workers are getting worse and worse (as cited in Eric & Matthew, 2011, p. 10). Data from U.S. Census Bureau, Pew Research Center has showed that in 2009, roughly 35 percent of authorized immigrants and 51 percent of illegal immigrants do (tense issue) not have high school degree (plural form required) while less than 10 percent of native residents are (tense issue) without high school diploma. Below-mentioned statistics (what statistcs are referred to) revealed that immigrants contribute to (an article is missing) surplus of low-skilled workforce (word choice issue). Consequently, Eric A. Ruark and Matthew Graham (2011) concluded that if low-skilled workers increase more and more (structure issue) and are not employed, the US government has to expand financial aids, especially welfare programs, for the low-skilled groups. In 2004, each low-skilled immigrant family utilized at least $19,600 in welfare programs than it paid in taxes (structure issue) (Eric & Matthew, 2011). Through welfare dependence and wage losses, low-skilled American workers can pay a heavy price for the surplus of unskilled workforce (word choice issue) partly caused low-skilled legal immigrants. (structure issue) Secondary sources should be use sparingly in APA style papers.

ConclusionIt is critical that the effects of legal immigration be identified on (incorrect preposition) various aspects so that native-born residents (why is this restricted to this particular group?) can comprehend what good and bad effects legal foreign-born workers possibly produce. Additionally, future researchers can find the most suitable solutions to deal with the negative effects of legal immigration in the US and maintain the stability of the US labor market. This paper includes the (incorrect article) two-sided effects of legal immigration on the US labor market on the basis of working on findings of some previous studies and reports. (structure issue) Finally, there is little evidence that low-skilled legal immigrants and native workers compete with one another for low-skilled jobs because the former are willing to work under no tax claims, no health insurance and low wages while the latter demand adequate profits from jobs. (how does this produce a lack of competition for jobs? By definition competition would indicate that someone is willing to receive less compensation than another person to do the same job.) The employers can reduce employment cost including tax, heath and labor insurance and others when they employ the low-skilled immigrants, which creates high competitiveness between low-skilled, legal immigrants and native workers. (this contradicts your previous statement) On the contrary, (to what does this refer?) there are (subject/verb agreement issue) much more evidence to prove the (word choice issue) legal immigration can result in many advantages for the US labor market, such as job creations, mutual complementarity, and economy (word form issue) expansion. Although there are still several inevitable (word choice issue), serious effects in some situations, legal immigration has brought tangible benefits for the US and has also been (an article is missing) essential catalyst in accelerating the US labor market. In terms of limitations in this research, the labor market and economy in (an article is missing) USA have recently been (word choice issue) changed and there are few studies on the negative effects of legal immigration on the US labor market. Constant change in labor market and lack of researches (research is a collective noun) on the negative aspects of legal immigration can lead to drawing shallow interpretation about the issues of immigration. Legal immigration can cause a wide range of effects on the US labor market in various ways. Hence, future researches on the harmful effects of legal immigration should be conducted to seek solutions to reduce or eliminate these effects that worsen the economy and society of the US. For instance, the US government should modify the immigration policies to permit only highly educated immigrants to have documented paper. (critically think about this option!)

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Ensure that all of your sources have citations in the text and references in that sectionReference entries are by the authors last names.References are not in alphabetical order.The validity of some of the sources is questionable (e.g., renewourcountry.ort, immigration works in USA, etc.)What is the purpose of your research?When you evaluate and interpret information you should identify the support and lack of support for the researchers conclusions.

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