- Description
A crucial question in the current debate over immigration is what impact immigrants have on the wages of native-born workers. At first glance, it might seem that the simple economics of supply and demand provides the answer: immigrants increase the supply of labor; hence they should decrease the wages of native workers. However, the issue is more complicated than this for two reasons that have been largely overlooked.
- Published by
- Immigration Policy Center
- Issue areas
- Employment and Labor
- Immigration
- Document type
- Report/Whitepaper
- Text
- Geography
- North America / United States
- Language
- English
- Copyright
- Copyright 2006 by Immigration Policy Center. All rights reserved.
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- Title
- Rethinking the Effects of Immigration on Wages: New Data and Analysis from 1990-2004
- Publication date
- 2006-10-01
- Publication year
- 2006
- Authors
- Giovanni Peri
- Copyright holder(s)
- Immigration Policy Center
- Geographical focus
- North America / United States
- Keywords
- native born, workers, wages, foreign born, without a high
- Document type
- Report/Whitepaper, Text
- Language
- English
- URL
- https://immigrationstrategies.issuelab.org/resource/rethinking-the-effects-of-immigration-on-wages-new-data-and-analysis-from-1990-2004
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