Immigration is a hotly debated issue in the U.S. and many other countries. 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.
Consumer prices –This scenario of extra people-lower prices-higher profits-faster economic growth rests on two critical assumptions: 1) the availability of idle resources such as land and capital (including technology), and 2) economies-of-scale in production. The availability of labor at predetermined wages affected the price of farmland through history. For example, Indians in Guatemala were forced to