[fulafel]

That would mean that countries with larger populations would have higher unemployment rates, but that is not the case.

[finance-geek]

It would mean that any poor country could simply become wealthy by allowing unlimited immigration...Most poor countries are nicer relative to some worse-off country, so certainly there would not be a shortage of immigrants wanting to migrate.

[fulafel]

I think the null hypothesis has to be that there is no correlation between population size and employment.