The "worker pool" is the total number of people who want jobs, including those who have jobs. That is what I meant by it.
In the two generic identities, where the pool of labor is represented by those who are employed (x), and those who are not employed and actively seeking employment
, and the rate of unemployment as the ratio of
over (P) multiplied by 100 to give us percentage.
P= (x)+
; U= (y/P)(100), therefore in the case of increased unemployment, x would have to either be decreasing more so than y is increasing, or y would have to be increasing more so than x.
In your original statement, you were inferring that the number of employed workers (x) were to be held constant and the pool of workers increased (sum of x and y) was to increase. Holding all else constant, the only way for unemployment to increase was for
(the people who cannot find a job) to increase.
But.... Is this argument in regards to illegal aliens entering the workforce? Lets add some numbers. Assume the total pool before illegal employees equals 100, where x=95 and y=5. We have the rate of unemployment to be 5%. Now assume that 5 illegal workers join the workforce.
If they consist if the y portion, those trying to find employment but cannot, the rate becomes 10/105 or 9.5%. This signifies that 5 illegal workers have entered the workforce (P) but could not find employment. But again, this is not the argument. The argument is this: when illegal workers get jobs, it decreases employment (or increases unemployment).
Let us assume those 5 illegal’s find employment. You have a new ratio, y=5 as the number of people seeking but not finding has stayed the same, and P= (95+5)+5=105; (5/105)(100)= 4.76%. This negates the assumption made that when illegal immigrants find employment, the rate of unemployment increases. For it to hold true, the 5 people that were working out of the original 95 would have to be fired, thereby increasing
by 5, and replaced with illegal workers (outside the pool) of which nobody has discussed so far (mind boggling).
With this in mind, what jobs do illegal aliens tend to flock to, and as a result American workers are being fired/replaced?
Might these jobs be things that 99.99999% of American's not be interested in doing? :rofl