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I've studied plenty of economics and have been around the world and back. Bringing in more labor increases the supply of it and there's also the added effect of

I've studied plenty of economics and have been around the world and back. Bringing in more labor increases the supply of it and there's also the added effect of immigrants willing to work for less than the local population. To deny this is to deny supply & demand and data.

tonyarkles 13y ago
I don't know that it's that cut and dry. People don't exist in a vacuum. New people show up, and they still need to eat, live, buy TVs. Some of them will probably start companies and increase the labour demand. etc etc. I'm not an expert by any means, but it didn't take much to find an article that supports this idea: --cut-- We find that the increased supply of non-EU low skilled immigrants pushed native workers to pursue more complex occupations. This reallocation happened mainly through movement across firms. Immigration increased mobility of natives across firms and across municipalities but it did not increase their probability of unemployment. We also observe a significant shift in the native labor force towards complex service industries in locations receiving more immigrants. Those mechanisms protected individual wages from immigrants competition and enhanced their wage outcomes. While the highly educated experienced wage gains already in the short-run, the gains of the less educated built up over time as they moved towards jobs that were complementary to those held by the non-EU immigrants. --cut-- http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/08/29/immigration_and_wages_in_denmark.html http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/08/29/immigration_a...