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NEW STUDY SHOWS IMMIGRANTS ACTUALLY PUSH UP WAGES FOR NATIVE WORKERS

By Greg Siskind

A new report from the Economic Policy Institute makes the case that immigrants at all wage levels actually lift wages for US workers:A key result from this work is that the estimated effect of immigration from 1994 to 2007 was to raise the wages of U.S.-born workers, relative to foreign-born workers, by 0.4% (or $3.68 per week), and to lower the wages of foreign-born workers, relative to U.S.-born workers, by 4.6% (or $33.11 per week). In other words, any negative effects of new immigration over this period were felt largely by the workers who are the most substitutable for new...

Full post as published by Greg Siskind's Blog on February 08, 2010 (boomark / email).