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> There may be some specific groups of workers who have suffered a lot And that's the point. Obviously plenty of people in the US are very well off, that won'
by Mikeb85 8y ago
> There may be some specific groups of workers who have suffered a lot
And that's the point. Obviously plenty of people in the US are very well off, that won't make poor people any happier.
Also, outsourcing labour and bringing in migrants have similar effects on wages because in both cases domestic labour is being replaced with lower-cost labour.
- dash2 8y agoYou may think that poor people have suffered from migration - but it is very hard to see in the data. That is my point.
- Mikeb85 8y agohttps://www.nber.org/papers/w3761 https://www.nber.org/papers/w3761 No, the data supports it, especially over the time period outlined by the original article.
- dash2 8y agoThat paper is interesting but it was published in 1991, and it predates the modern use of exogenous shocks to get clear evidence on causality. In particular, it doesn't directly estimate effects on wages - it calculates them from an economic model. Whereas this paper looks directly for wage effects, in the context of a big local labour supply shock, and doesn't find them: Card, D., 1990. The impact of the Mariel boatlift on the Miami labor market. ILR Review, 43(2), pp.245-257. Borjas is an interesting guy and I respect him, but I don't think the overall literature supports his negative view of migration's effects on wages. I stand by my claim, not because I'm a huge expert, but backed up by the two literature reviews mentioned above.
- Mikeb85 8y agoYour paper is literally cited and explained by the one I posted...