MGEB06H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: George J. Borjas, High School Dropouts, David Card
10 Sep 2018
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Every now and again america, a nation largely made up of immigrants and their descendants, is gripped by a furious political row over whether and how it should stem the flood of people wanting to enter the country. It is in the midst of just such a quarrel now. Congress is contemplating the erection of a wall along stretches of the mexican border and a crackdown on illegal workers, as well as softer policies such as a guest-worker programme for illegal immigrants. Immigration"s defenders claim that foreigners come to do jobs that americans won"t as if cities with few immigrants had no gardeners. Its opponents say that immigrants steal american jobs succumbing to the fallacy that there are only a fixed number of jobs to go around. One common argument, though not silly, is often overstated: that immigration pushes down. It isn"t hard to see why this might be.
