May 24, 2005 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Foreign-born labor force participation
In 2004, there were 21.4 million foreign-born persons in the American
labor force, 14.5 percent of the total. From 2002 to 2004, the number of
foreign-born labor force participants grew by about 1.2 million and
accounted for a little less than half of total labor force growth.
![Labor force participation rate by sex, 2004](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20120925110254im_/http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/images/2005/may/wk4/art02.gif) [Chart data—TXT]
A little over two-thirds—67.5 percent—of foreign-born persons 16
years and over were in the labor force in 2004. The labor force
participation rate for the native born was 65.7 percent.
Foreign-born men were more likely to be labor force participants than
their native-born counterparts. In contrast, foreign-born women were less
likely to be labor force participants than were native-born women.
These data are from the Current Population
Survey. Find more information in "Labor
Force Characteristics of Foreign-born Workers in 2004" (PDF) (TXT),
news
release USDL 05-834.
Of interest
Spotlight on Statistics: National Hispanic Heritage Month
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