I also think there’s a “seen” versus “unseen” issue where a) some labor supply effects are transmitted to other markets and b) employers have incentive to move to immigration heavy markets and abandon those without
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I don’t anyone really concedes how labor law has made it extremely high risk as well as costly to hire Americans
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If they're illegal, all of them, since they risk deportation whenever they report? For example, stories like this are almost *always* about immigration as well as unsafe working conditions.https://forward.com/news/1006/in-iowa-meat-plant-kosher-e2-80-98jungle-e2-80-99-breeds-fea/ …
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You think legal immigrants are as likely as American citizens to sue their employers, organize, or go talk to the press?
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The impacts of unjust dismissal (making it extremely hard to fire workers) alone pushes employers overseas and probably also pushes them to hire non-citizens. https://economics.mit.edu/files/11572
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I'm not contending that employers are irrational. IN any case, I think you should read that paper in the context of Autor's other work on foreign outsourcing (https://seii.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Autor-Dorn-Hanson-The-China-Syndrome-Local-Labor-Market-Effects-of-Import-Competition-in-the-United-States-American-Economic-Revi.pdf …)
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capital and labor are complements; they produce goods. division of income between capital and labor is determined by bargaining power: when capital is plentiful and labor is scarce labor gets higher wages and vice versa make whatever case you want, it's not "win-win"
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