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
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Low unemployment rate overlooks those who've dropped out of the job market entirely
The Employment Situation of Immigrants and Natives in the First Quarter of 2018
CIS analysis of new Bureau of Labor Statistics data
Liberals say immigration enforcement is racist, but the group most likely to benefit from it is black men
Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty