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I agree that Japan (and the US) would benefit from more immigration for a lot of reasons. But if you can only grow your economy by adding people, you aren't re

I agree that Japan (and the US) would benefit from more immigration for a lot of reasons. But if you can only grow your economy by adding people, you aren't really increasing per-capita income, at least for the working class.

nandemo 12y ago
> you aren't really increasing per-capita income, Even countries that are relatively open to (legal) immigration, like Canada and Australia, tend to limit immigration to working-age adults qualified to work in technical, professional or otherwise white-collar jobs. So I think it's fair to say that you do increase per-capita income. I wouldn't put the US in the same boat as Japan, though. Between green cards and naturalizations, the US receives well over 1 million immigrants per year (that doesn't count non-immigrant visas like H1B etc): http://www.voanews.com/content/us-issues-million-green-cards-and-naturalizes-757000-in-2012/1627155.html http://www.voanews.com/content/us-issues-million-green-cards...