"this holds in miami in the 1980s" oh sure I bet that explains everything everywhere else too huh sure there are no important parameters that vary over space time or population
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i dont have an opinion about the effect of immigration on wages either way. I just think the fact that the best empiricists in economics have wasted forty years arguing about this shit for a worthless result is itself a condemnation of the entire endeavor
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Data are (is?) theory-laden so all the theories that interpret the data are also trash.
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what? this just means it's useless to collect any data because it will never change our minds, which is clearly wrong.
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truth is dead, which means god is alive again
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no, no, God is dead too, Nietszche got that part right
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The only way you can believe that immigrants have 0 effect on wages is if you also believe minimum wage has 0 effect on employment.
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immigrants increase demand
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