Labor supply shocks fail to depress native wages because new workers generate their own demand.
Localized wage pressures from immigration are offset by task complementarities and immigrant-driven consumer demand.
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High-skilled immigration acts as a productive complement that expands business operations and boosts native-born demand rather than triggering displacement.
The post-pandemic wave of unauthorized immigration created an employment boom that lowered reliance on safety nets, showing that immigrant labor generates its own economic demand and self-integrating dynamics rather than acting as a drag on native outcomes.
It charts the baseline natural experiment that launched the supply-side debate in contemporary immigration economics.
It highlights the consensus that labor supply shocks are neutralized in the long run as immigrant household expenditures stimulate broader capital and job growth.
A robust synthesis of hundreds of micro-level studies confirms that the aggregate wage elasticity of immigration remains virtually non-existent.
It reconciles a famous outlier study by showing how compositional race bias in survey sampling created a false negative wage decline.
It shows that immigrant-driven product demand shifts create positive, persistent wage effects for native workers, offsetting pure supply-side pressures.