Study Proves Illegal Immigration Is Also Driving Down Wages of High-Skilled Earners

Mass Conservative News.Net ^ | 9-22-06 | E.F. Winslow

[francke]

A new study by Harvard University is touting some of the benefits of illegal immigration, namely the fact that it has the effect of “driving down relative wages among high-skilled workers” and can increase “more tax dollars to the general coffers.”

Hold it. I must have read that wrong. Nope. That’s right.

Michael Kremer, the researcher, is Gates Professor of Developing Societies in the Department of Economics at Harvard University, is an affiliate of the Center for International Development and has authored a paper titled “The Globalization of Household Production.”

[Niuhuru]

I am so sick of this. People who have no business being here living off of the hard work of the productive population. We have our own native population that already does this, we don't need more.

[bordergal]

Yeah, every American woman should be clamoring to have her children raised by uneducated foreigners.

Puleeeze!

[Clemenza]

1. Deport all illegals.

2. Make EVERY state a "right to work state" (ie, smash the unions!)

[VOA]

First person I ever personally met that loved the idea of raising taxes was...
in graduate school.

Freaked me out.

[VOA]

A new study by Harvard University is touting some of the benefits of
illegal immigration, namely the fact that it has the effect of “driving down
relative wages among high-skilled workers” and can increase “more tax dollars
to the general coffers.”

Ideas so cracked...only intellectuals would consider them.

[staytrue]

The argument Kremer makes goes like this: as more immigrant women serve in household positions, more high-skilled American women are therefore available to join the labor market, driving down relative wages among high-skilled workers and reducing the disparity in wages between low- and high- skilled workers...

If you think you have heard this before, you probably have. It is exactly what Karl Marx spelled out in his Communist Manifesto as a utopian society

Have you guys considered that the person who said this IS AN IDIOT ?

[Nathan Zachary]

"it has the effect of “driving down relative wages among high-skilled workers” and can increase “more tax dollars to the general coffers.”

What is this guy on? Illegals don't pay taxes, and lowering the income of those that do doesn't increase revenue. The only way you will gwet increased revenue is by electing democrats, who will simply raise taxes to cover the shortage of tax dollars.
Electing democrats will result in our economy collapsing instead of just slowing down during natural cycles of reduced activity.
The glut of cheap illegal labor will make an economic collapse a long term disaster.

[holyscroller]

"Ideas so cracked...only intellectuals would consider them."

Intellectuals? Just the opposite. As the bible says, (paraphrased) "they thought they were wise, yet they were stupid."