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the_immigration_equation_reading_guide.docxEcon 428 C. Nelson
Reading Guide: “The Immigration Equation”
1. Discuss the demographics of immigration. Where, how many, what education level, what types of jobs, etc.
2. Graph the effect of new immigrants on the market for native workers given that immigrants and native workers are compliments in production. What happens when they are substitutes? (hint: consider both scale and substitution effects) Do wages for native workers rise or fall?
3. What is the empirical evidence? What does Card argue is correct? What does Borjas argue is correct?
