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That’s not how I read the second point. More low paid workers will of course suppress average wages, but that says nothing about the wages of an individual long
by aqme28 3y ago
That’s not how I read the second point. More low paid workers will of course suppress average wages, but that says nothing about the wages of an individual longitudinally
- OrvalWintermute 3y agoI think it will actually hurt people at the very lowest end of the spectrum, that are most vulnerable to price competition
- renewiltord 3y agoIf you expect that low-income people do not consume the services of low-income people that makes sense.
- bryanlarsen 3y agoResearch generally shows that it is low-income Americans that benefit the most from immigration. For example, suppose there's a high school dropout now working as a janitor because that's all he can get. Now a bunch of low-skill immigrants come in and compete for that janitor job. But now he's not on the bottom of the pecking ladder. He's got skills the immigrants don't have, like a solid grasp of English and understands the customers better than they do. He gets a job as a manager of immigrant janitors.
- aqme28 3y agoAlso those low income migrants have a better life too
- influx 3y agoThey are essentially union busters.