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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 and Housing Markets: Post-Pandemic Evidence It demonstrates that immigrant inflows act as powerful local demand shocks that directly raise prices and activity in the local economy.
Immigration and Wages
The Labor Supply Curve is Upward Sloping: The Effects of Immigrant-Induced Demand Shocks It validates the demand-side wage benefit of immigration, where new arrivals' distinct consumption habits pull up the wages of native workers in exposed sectors.