Why the United States Is the Biggest Creator of Jobs

During the last century, the United States was the one country that provided the most jobs (legal and illegal) to workers from around the world. The majority of migrants see in the United States the most viable option for finding work or starting a business. Currently, according to data from the Census Bureau, more than 46 million immigrants of Hispanic origin live in the United States; 30 million of those are of Mexican origin.

In the constitutions of Latin American countries, there are extensive articles or chapters to protect workers, whereas the U.S. Constitution doesn’t even dedicate a single letter to workers’ protection. Flexible work environments increase workers’ demands and raise wages in the United States, well above the wages of Latin American countries — to such an extent, in fact, that many Latin Americans earn in one hour in the American union what they’d receive in one day or week working in their own countries.

In one of the most important indicators of the World Bank, the rigidity of employment index, the United States appears as the country with the most labor flexibility of the world. There, there exists an increased ability to hire, fire, and pay per hour or per particular job. There’s no law in the Constitution or in the Federal Legislation that requires employers to liquidate, nor do the labor costs of business grow each year.

As labor flexibility is the main cause of job creation in the United States, in Mexico, the main reason sufficient jobs haven’t been created for all Mexicans, causing millions to have to migrate legally or illegally to the United States, is due to the rigidity of the labor legislation that, unrelated to worker productivity, raises the costs of labor over time. Hopefully, our legislators will realize that we don’t need more laws to protect the workers, but more jobs — jobs that will only be created if we adjust our costly, obsolete and anti-competitive labor law.