Quote (Saucisson6000 @ 31 Jul 2018 07:42)
2 studies:
David Card's results indicate that the migration shock had no effect on Miami's salary and average employment rate. Those of Jennifer Hunt show that on average the repatriation of the 900,000* French from Algeria had a negative effect, although limited, on the employment and the wages of the metropolitans*. The main conclusion of these studies is that immigration has virtually no effect on the average wage and employment of workers. More recent studies (theoretically based and neutralizing the problems related to immigrants' location choices), conducted in the United States, Great Britain, Germany and France, confirm this. Some of them even show that immigration sometimes has slightly positive effects on the average salary of the natives: the newcomers would rather degrade the conditions of employment of the previous waves of immigration and would allow the natives to reorient themselves towards jobs more remunerative.
*0-1% and 900.000 was gigantic amount (0.9/50)
http://davidcard.berkeley.edu/papers/card-peri-jel-april-6-2016.pdfhttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/4902369_The_Impact_of_Immigrants_on_Host_Country_Wages_Employment_and_GrowthLook like you have some kind of agenda.
this study by Card is an old and outdated study whose conclusions have been cast into doubt by more recent studies:
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article162683083.htmllets go through the key parts:
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The tumultuous Mariel refugee influx of 1980 is back in the news — this time at the core of a roiling debate about whether immigrants hurt less-educated native-born workers.
The heated arguments focus on the new work of a Cuban-born Harvard professor, George Borjas, who concludes that Mariel caused a drastic drop in pay among native-born Miami high school dropouts
note: borjas is a cuban immigrant himself, so he most likely does not hold racist resentment against latinos or immigrants in general.
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His work has sparked an uproar among fellow economists and many policymakers because, for years, the academic world has believed that the sudden arrival of 125,000 Cubans via the boatlift had no effect on the wages of those already living in Miami — the conclusion of a widely respected 1990 research paper by David Card, then a Princeton professor.
Card’s study has long been cited worldwide by policymakers and the media as a major reason why people shouldn’t be afraid of immigrants — including Mexicans entering the United States and Syrians arriving in Europe.
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...too often waves of immigration are blurred by many factors, including uncertain time frames and new arrivals often flocking to places where the most jobs are available, meaning their effects on native-born Americans are minimized.
With Mariel, time and location were limited. In April 1980, Fidel Castro announced that virtually anyone could leave through the port of Mariel. Boats rushed to Cuba from Key West to pick up friends and relatives. In the first six weeks, according to the Coast Guard, about 100,000 Cubans made the trip — most of them going to Miami, where the workforce suddenly swelled by about 60,000. About 60 percent of the new arrivals had less than a high school education. [...]
Borjas re-visited the boatlift, focusing on those native-born Americans most likely to face competition from the new arrivals — male non-Hispanic high school dropouts aged 25-59. More than half of that group in Miami were black. The wages for this group, he found, “dropped dramatically, by 10 to 30 percent.”
the article is published by the slightly left-leaning miami herald, so it focuses quite a lot on possible criticism of Borja's study.
near the end of the article, there's this interesting section:
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[referring to the contradictory study results of Card and Borjas:] Who’s right? Last year, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine issued a 642-page report on immigration. It acknowledged Borjas’ main point — that native groups with similar skills to new immigrants “may experience a wage reduction,” particularly those with “low-education, low-skills.”
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Jul 31 2018 10:03am