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It would be interesting to calculate how much better wages are given country of origin. What I mean is, there are currently about 28 million immigrants living
by tosser0001 7y ago
It would be interesting to calculate how much better wages are given country of origin. What I mean is, there are currently about 28 million immigrants living in the U.S. with about 1.2 million arriving every year (both documented and undocumented.)
According to statistics, 30% of new immigrants have no high school diploma, so while the average wage is low, it's probably much higher than they would be getting in their native country (otherwise, presumably, many woudn't have left in the first place.)
This may be putting pressure on wage growth for native-born Americans but overall growth as a whole may be stronger than it looks.
- rayiner 7y agoAlso, employers don’t value foreign degrees very much, so if the category of people with “some college” or a “college degree” includes many more immigrants, you’ll see average incomes go down.
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- thatfrenchguy 7y ago> According to statistics, 30% of new immigrants have no high school diploma, so while the average wage is low, it's probably much higher than they would be getting in their native country (otherwise, presumably, many woudn't have left in the first place.) You forget about cost of living here.
- onlyrealcuzzo 7y agoIf anyone has data on this, I'd love to know. But I'm willing to bet globalization (wages in China) have a much larger effect on wages for average US jobs than immigrants coming to the US do. There's a lot more competition to do almost anything in China or India than there is from (potentially) lower paid immigrants in the US. Sure, not everything can be outsourced. But for everything else...