Immigration & Low-Skilled Labor

Essentially, Chiswick contends that the immigration of low-skilled labor into a country need not harm the low-income labor already resident in the receiving country if a benign income transfer system subsidizes any income losses suffered by the resident low-skilled labor while simultaneously maintaining the level of income for resident high-skilled labor. An implicit condition in this scenario is that the immigrating low-skilled labor will paid wages lower than those being earned by the resident low-skilled labor prior to the immigration, and that income transfers will not be made to the immigrating low-skilled labor to raise their income to the lev

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