Immigrants increase wages not depress them?

Question

http://borderbattles.ssrc.org/Carter_Sutch/index.html

It seems to me that an influx of immigration bolsters the economy and doesn't depress it. And that immigrant workers are not lowering the wages of American as some people have stated.

No?

I am only referencing the paper that I posted in the link. Did anyone bother reading it? I didnt just pull this out of thin air.

Oh, and I'm not illegal. I'm a white boy from Indiana. I just happen to be able to read.

A dynamic historical analysis, such as that offered by historians and theorists of economic growth, suggests not. A long-term historical perspective indicates that, even though immigration may somewhat slow the rate of growth in wages, it also has a stabilizing effect in sustaining growth by raising levels of consumption and investment and by differentially expanding labour supply to the dynamic sectors of the economy.

As written by the two economics professors from the University of California.

I'm not making this stuff up.....

I'm no economist but, "basic" economic models are insufficient to evaluate the effect of immigration on wages and labor.

Answer 1

That is not how the free market works. When my grandfather and thousands of other Italians came here , by invitation, they depressed wages of coal miners, construction workers etc. Certainly an influx of people create a need for goods and services etc. If most of these Mexicans had engineering degrees then engineers would be a dime a dozen and engineer pay would go down. Since they are mowing lawns and doing construction work these kinds of work are not very lucrative. For example 25 years ago I paid my lawn man 25 dollars a cut. Last year I was paying my lawn man 25 dollars a cut for the same size lawn. Twenty five dollars last year would not buy nearly as much as 25 years ago. Part of the reason is bigger lawn mowers but mostly it is the influx of cheap uneducated labor.

Answer 2

According to the link, there really needs to be more recent
statistics probed. The former research was done many years
ago, and it points to a influx of 10% more immigrants to
helping to lower the wage by 1%. Now that is even if the
research can be proved to be true. There is conflict opinions
for both sides of this theory.
More production increases economy. The amount of
workers needed on jobs wouldn't necessarily increase, just
the amount of people trying to get the same job. And legally
no illegal is allowed to work without a SS card matching
his identity. I think there is going to be more of a push soon
for legal citizens to start working in the fields for needed in-
come, as I'm hearing. And there will be less illegals needed.
The price of picking, per bushel, or basket would remain the
same. Or at least, the orchard owners should hold up their
end of things legally.

Answer 3

let me see.... Im illegal, i pay taxes (and probably more that all you ppl here) . Im a worthy citizen and dont have a criminal record. I work in a warehouse in which there are 20 ppl. From those 20 ppl. There are 4 iilegal ppl there. WE need to keep looking for atleast 7 ppl every month because they quit. Why do they quit? Because they cant take the hard work. They get paid good and still cant manage to stay. I have been working there for three years and get pay the same amount as everyone else even do im the manager Why? Because Im illegal? Now...thats BS. I have more education, more skills and im more valuable as a worker since i have taken the time to learn all the skills of every position. And just for the record, i am working on fixing my immigration paper work. It doesnt matter how much you get paid. If its hard work Americans wont do it because its never enough for them.

Answer 4

When you grow up you should take a real economics course. You will learn that increased supply (labor in this case) lowers the price of a commodity.
So according to one of the most basic laws of economics, immigrants depress wages, and your implication that people who disagree with your fallacies can't read is laughable. Your position is indefensible so you resort to mindless insults.

Answer 5

Yeah keep smoking that weed dude. Illegals cross the border and over run our emergency rooms for free medical care. They flood our schools and don't pay anything.
Business owners get by without paying a fair wage and don't pay social security or benefits.
Companies that hire illegals pay lower wages and do not hire Americans.
You know nothing about America....you must be illegal.

Answer 6

that could be a bill which you may carry off until the economic gadget is nice. If this replaced into the mid-Nineteen Eighties or the previous due-Nineteen Nineties, with a booming economic gadget, i ought to understand. yet with twenty-2 million human beings out of artwork, i do no longer see counsel on a thank you to sell this to the customary public. we don't have the supplies. think of of ways super twenty-2 million human beings is. it fairly is extra suitable than each and every island interior the Caribbean prepare. and that they choose for to function thirty-3 million extra human beings.

Answer 7

You are wrong, the pay offered offered 17 years ago in the manufacturing industry hasn't changed much because of immigrants. They will work for less than some one who has worked here for years. I work with these people every day! you my friend do not know what you speak of.

Answer 8

Some jobs in Florida require that you speak Spanish...
They are not only lowering wages...they are indeed eliminating Americans from the workforce all together.

English is not enough

Answer 9

I scanned it. I, and most other studies (including some quoted) disagree with it.

More people chasing jobs drives down wages. We don't need manipulable 'studies' because we have seen it happen.

Answer 10

yes they have. farm workers should be getting about 12 dollars an hour. plant workers should be getting 15 to 20 dollars an hour. they are the cause of wages staying down.