Immigration is a hotly debated issue in the U. Write a 1-2 page paper in which you describe the impact of immigration on: .
Wages - Because immigration increases the supply of U.S. labor, it reduces wages or makes jobs scarcer for natives. Some study also suggests that immigration reduces the wages of lower-skilled natives and increases those of higher-skilled natives. Job competition between immigrants and natives is especially fierce at the bottom of the labor market, because so many immigrants are employed in the low-skilled/low-wage segments of the economy. 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. Migration increase outputs and decrease wages in the country of immigration, as it decrease out-put and increase wages in the country of emigration. For the world as a whole, migration leads to net increases in output. .
Native unskilled workers - In low-skilled occupations the effects of immigration are much stronger. For the 23 percent of natives employed in these occupations (about 25 million workers), a one percent increase in the immigrant composition of their occupation reduces wages by .8 percent. Since these occupations are 15 percent immigrant, this suggests that immigration may reduce the wages of the average native in a low-skilled occupation by perhaps 12 percent, or $1,915 a year. The skill distinction means that not all native workers will receive a lower wage rate. 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. This finding suggests that most immigrants are not substituting for native labor -skilled or unskilled-but are, instead, complementing it.
