The two tables compare the US-born and foreign-born workforce in the United States, providing figures for employment and unemployment according to gender and age. All figures are given in thousands, with unemployment rates expressed as percentages.
Overall, the US-born workforce was substantially larger than its foreign-born counterpart, although the two groups had almost identical overall unemployment rates. In terms of gender, foreign-born men had a lower unemployment rate than US-born men, whereas the reverse was true for women. By age, younger foreign-born workers generally had lower unemployment rates, while the opposite was observed among older workers.
Looking first at gender, the unemployment rate among foreign-born men stood at 8.9%, compared with 10.6% for their US-born counterparts. However, this pattern was reversed among women, with the foreign-born female workforce recording an unemployment rate of 11.1%, considerably higher than the 8.5% recorded for US-born women. Overall, the unemployment rate for the foreign-born workforce was marginally higher, at 9.8%, than that of the US-born workforce, at 9.6%. Despite this similarity in unemployment rates, the size of the two workforces differed dramatically: there were 129,533 thousand US-born workers, compared with just 24,357 thousand foreign-born workers.
Turning to age, foreign-born workers aged 16-24 and 25-34 recorded lower unemployment rates than US-born workers in the same age groups. However, this trend was reversed among older workers, with those in the foreign-born workforce experiencing higher unemployment rates than their US-born counterparts. Thus, while younger foreign-born workers generally performed better in terms of employment, the reverse was true for older age groups.