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Immigrant-driven demand exposure pushes up native real wages.
Accounting for the consumption patterns of incoming immigrants reveals a powerful demand-side shock that raises wages in less-translatable sectors and offsets localized supply-side wage pressure.
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Immigration and Wages
Unauthorized Immigration and Local Labor Markets: Post-Pandemic Evidence and the Compositional Effect It illustrates how a sudden contraction in the immigrant population reverses local demand shocks, cooling the housing and rental costs previously driven up by immigration.
Immigration and Wages
The Labor Supply Curve is Upward Sloping: The Effects of Immigrant-Induced Demand Shocks This establishes that the localized consumption patterns of incoming immigrants create powerful demand-side economic shocks that actively elevate native wages.