- Immigration does not reduce wages for native-born Americans, except in a few special circumstances.
- Immigration increases labor supply and labor demand, which tends to cancel out the downward pressure on wages.
- Economists have done a lot of research on the question of whether immigration lowers wages, and have found very small or no labor market impact.
- Studies on refugee waves have found no negative effect on native-born wages, and some studies have even found that immigration increases native-born wages in the long run.
- Other studies have looked at internal migration in the U.S. and found that inflows of internal migrants cause a boom in housing construction, which supports local labor markets.
- George Borjas wrote a paper claiming to find negative effects for a very small slice of less-educated minority workers, but other economists found that even that drop was actually the result of a change in measurement.
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