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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It shows how a sudden stop in immigrant worker inflows forces occupational downgrading for native workers, causing a direct drop in their wages.
This demonstrates that aggressive labor restriction policies compress overall native real wages by triggering inflation and disrupting production complementarities.
This historical evidence proves that restricting the supply of complementary immigrant labor ultimately depresses native-born productivity and long-term economic mobility.