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Economics Benefits of Immigration

  • Writer: Andrew Lewis
    Andrew Lewis
  • Jan 20, 2022
  • 1 min read

Updated: Mar 10, 2022

- Highly educated people, especially college educated people migrate to the United States. The other group is young people, who has very high potential to become productive citizens.


- With more immigration, it increases the labor supple, which reduces wages but also lowers consumer prices as business have less input costs.


- Businesses can also expand their production capacity as a result of having a bigger pool of workers that they can hire.


- Immigrant workers are much more educated and typically in science or engineering, which helps with growing the United States tech industry.


- Low skilled immigrant workers tend to work at manual labor, while low skilled native-born workers tend to work at retail and supervisors.



“Migration: The Economic Benefits of Immigration.” Center for Latin American Studies, 4 Oct. 2021, https://clas.berkeley.edu/migration-economic-benefits-immigration.

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