Ryan Avent interviews interviews Robert Shapiro, author of a recent paper on immigration's impact on American wages, and writes:
I particularly appreciated the point that undocumented workers will find it risky to move around the country. Their geographic mobility is therefore limited, which means that costs are concentrated locally. At the same time, upward mobility is curtailed since some opportunities are too risky to pursue, which increases the time illegal immigrants spend in poverty.
As I posted earlier, the ability of illegal immigrants to move easily from where jobs are scarce to where jobs are abundant is a boon not only to them but to the US economy.
Shapiro also has interesting things to say about about immigration and entrepreneurship, the composition of where immigrants are coming from, and about the family values of illegal immigrants. The whole interview is just ten minutes. Check it out:
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