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
Immigration and the American Worker
A Review of the Academic Literature
A Bleak Picture
Employment among U.S. Citizens In States Represented by Gang of Eight
There Must Be a Blue Moon Shining – DOJ Unit Actually Helps Citizens!
Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty, Guestworkers