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Restricting low-skilled immigration collapses the firm-level production scale that supports native jobs.
Because low-skilled immigrants and native workers perform complementary roles, reducing the supply of foreign manual labor shrinks business capacity and triggers native-born layoffs or wage downgrades.
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Immigration and Wages
Immigration Enforcement: Native Employment Impacts and the Complementarity Trap This illustrates that restricting low-skilled immigrant labor fails to increase native employment because firms scale down or automate instead of hiring native replacements.
Immigration and Wages
Low-Skilled Immigration: Complementarity, Technology Adoption, and Output Mix Adjustments It shows how a sudden stop in immigrant worker inflows forces occupational downgrading for native workers, causing a direct drop in their wages.