The increased effective supply of less-educated workers in the 1980s, imports and increase immigration depress wages and thus widen the earnings gap between less skilled and more skilled Americans. By the 1990s many Americans were expressing concerns that immigration harmed the country by taking away jobs, driving down wages, and using too many government services. ... Most analyses of various have found that a 10 percent increase in the immigrant share of the population reduces native wages by 1 percent at most. ...

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Social Development Officer in the Caribbean Office of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Sonia Cuales, argues that although some international economic strategies have produced notable statistical results, there has been little reduction of some persistent problems. ... This redirection will help to reduce the growing gap in social and economic well being and the exclusion of a significant proportion of the population from the benefits of economic growth. ... The study in addition states that more than half of this unemployed population is unde...

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Economic growth is the change in potential output of the economy shown by a shift to the right of the production possibility frontier. Economic growth is measured usually always by the change in real national income. The main causes of Economic growth are to do with land, labour, capital and entrep...

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