From the article:
When immigrants arrive, what happens to locals’ wages?
One of the core arguments of most immigration opponents is that competition from immigrants makes the people who are already in a country worse off.
That seems to make intuitive sense. Basic supply and demand: If there are more workers, wages should fall.
A recent study by the Harvard economist George Borjas found that was true. He took advantage of a natural experiment — the Mariel boatlift, which brought thousands of Cubans to Miami...
But a new paper says his conclusion was wrong: the result of a data error, not real wage effects.
Jennifer Hunt, an economics professor at Rutgers University, and Michael Clemens, an economist at the Center for Global Development, a Washington think tank, argue that Mr. Borjas’s results can be explained by a glitch in the data he used.
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