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A sudden demographic reversal in manual labor yields an immediate slowdown in physical supply.
When low-skilled labor pools contract sharply, the construction and industrial sectors bear the immediate brunt, directly slowing down residential construction and the growth of overall housing supply.
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Immigration and Wages
Unauthorized Immigration and Local Labor Markets: Post-Pandemic Evidence and the Compositional Effect This demonstrates that a policy-driven decline in unauthorized manual labor directly restricts physical construction and slows the expansion of residential housing supply.
Immigration and Wages
Immigration Enforcement: Native Employment Impacts and the Complementarity Trap This explains how a supply shock of manual laborers forces firms to scale down operations and halt ongoing construction projects.