Wages, Jobs, and Poverty
For American workers, immigration is primarily a redistributive policy. Economic theory predicts that immigration will redistribute income by lowering the wages of competing American workers and increasing the wages of complementary American workers as well as profits for business owners and other “users” of immigrant labor.
- George J. Borjas, Professor of Economics and Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Has Immigration Enforcement Benefitted American Workers?
Evidence from the BLS household survey suggests the answer is ‘yes’
Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty
Immigration Projections: Only as Good as the Assumptions Behind Them
Less than meets the eye in Yale think tank’s productivity forecast
Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty