Wages, Jobs, and Poverty
For American workers, immigration is primarily a redistributive policy. Economic theory predicts that immigration will redistribute income by lowering the wages of competing American workers and increasing the wages of complementary American workers as well as profits for business owners and other “users” of immigrant labor.
- George J. Borjas, Professor of Economics and Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Immigration Brief: There Are No Jobs American't Won't Do
A detailed look at immigrants (legal and illegal) and natives across occupations
There Are No Jobs Americans Won’t Do
A detailed look at immigrants (legal and illegal)
and natives across occupations
and natives across occupations
Topics: Wages, Jobs, and Poverty