Immigration increases the average American wage.

submitted by Vegethu from self.strangestatistics

National Bureau of Economic Research paper on the effects immigration has on wages in the United States Study contends previous analyses on the relationship between immigration and wages falsely assumed perfect labor substitutability between immigrants and native workers of similar education levels, distorting results. Research shows average American wage RISES due to immigration, both short-term and long-term.

Only native demographic whose wages drop are High School dropouts who suffer a decrease in wages of approximately ~2% short-term, alleviating to ~1.1% over time.

Study finds new immigration does severely impact wages of prior immigrants, suggesting lack of substitutability with *natives. Overall, vast majority of American workers’ wages increase from immigration, High School dropouts (<10% of population) experience a slight decrease which alleviates with time (and there is evidence that immigration may increase native High School graduation rates, too).

Here is the relevant source:

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w12497.pdf%26amp;sa%3DD%26amp;ust%3D1595752943783000%26amp;usg%3DAOvVaw0eTex-_LgbnF2rKdpOPxVb&sa=D&ust=1595752943870000&usg=AFQjCNH1R5GGz2Ki1VOcVZU9vLBkGnYSpw

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[–]FoxySDT 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Not according to this meta-analysis of 348 estimates on the impact of immigration on native wages in the United States and EU countries which found that a 1% increase in immigrants as part of the labor force was associated with a 0.119% reduction in native wages.

https://research.vu.nl/en/publications/a-meta-analytic-assessment-of-the-effect-of-immigration-on-wages-3

[–]Vegethu[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You haven't for why you think my citation is inaccurate. Can you actually confront my argument please?

On the topic of your study, are you aware that my comment is reffering to the US alone? Your study includes the US as well but even goes so far as to say that the results of immigration were different between the 2 countries. Also you have to aware that your study admits that much works remains to be done when assessing the impact of immigration on the labour force and was published in 2004 whereas my study a far more recent study.

[–]FoxySDT 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

They do say the effect was larger in the EU but it wasn't much better in the US

"The results in columns (2) and (3) of Table 3 confirm that the effect sizes estimated by studies focussing on the US seem to be significantly closer to zero than the ones estimated by studies focussing on the EU."

We can pretend that the effect of immigration on wages is 0.00 instead of -0.119 but it is the same in the end. Immigration doesn't increase native wages.