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Originally Posted by AmateurFlix
Increasing the supply of low cost labor decreases the need for employers to compete for labor and thus decreases everyone's wages. Remove the portion of the labor pool willing to work for peanuts and the average wage will increase. You'd rather see everyone have lower pay by your logic. Another brilliant idea.  |
You are so ingnorant that it's beyond funny
If you weren't so ignorant you'd read some studies done by people with merit and realize that it's not my idea or an idea of a pornmonger like yourself, but just studies done by respected economists.
Illegal immigration does not decrease everyone's wages but only wages of highschool dropouts by 3.6%. Now before jumping into saying okay immigrants are undercutting the wages of the least fortunate Americans, maybe consider Ohio. Unlike California, Ohio remains mostly free of illegal immigrants. And what happened to the wages of Ohio's high school dropouts from 1980 to 2004? They fell 31 percent. Must be the invisible mexicans doing voodoo there huh? Across the entire labor force,
the effect of illegal immigrants is 0% (again not my idea), because the presence of uneducated immigrants actually increases the earnings of more educated workers, including high school graduates. For instance (just 1 example here so the simpleminds know), higher-skilled workers could hire foreigners at low wages to mow their lawns and care for their children, freeing time for these workers to earn more.
Now, "If you're a native high school dropout in this economy, you've got a slew of problems of which immigrant competition is but one, and a lesser one at that," said Jared Bernstein of the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal research group and I very much agree with him
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/16/bu...erland&emc=rss