I interpret it this way... People who fight to come here work hard. I'm not sure if it is due to the difficulty of the trip scaring the lazy, or the relative opportunity, but immigrants drive this country. The first generation works hard. The second works smart. The third works rich. The next blows it all. :-)

Oof. Please remember it is much, much easier to measure something like labor participation rate (which is what the study actually measures) than work ethic (which is the interpretation that the blogger is drawing out of that data). If one group of people is working less than another, it might be because they're lazy and shiftless. It also might be because they're in a different environment, facing a different set of positive and negative reinforcements to hard work.

If you are going to stereotype and collect statistics, why make generalizations of all nationalities?

Why not break down the "work ethic" by country of origin, age, etc.

This whole study is ridiculous. I have a feeling it's not aimed at Canadian immigrants to the USA but instead Mexican.

If that's the case, why don't we help build up Mexican commerce by taking all the stuff we buy/build in China and build up Mexico instead? What if Mexico had the factories that we helped build in China? What if foxconn was in Mexico instead of China?

ps.

the labor-force participation rate of the foreign-born in 2010 was 67.9 percent, compared to the native-born rate of 64.1 percent

Isn't 3% considered a margin of error unless there is a massive amount of data?

It should be noted that this is true only to some parts of the world, and more specifically, true only to some nationalities and cultures of immigrants. The situation with immigrants' and lacking work ethics is grave in most of Europe. Grave.

So, illegal Mexicans shouldn't be on the right-wing agenda this electoral cycle, or am I missing something?