Dave <noway@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
> adam russell <adamrussell@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>> Id like to add that the entire labor market becomes depressed due to
>> illegal workers. They work cheap not because they are mexican or
>> because they are poor, but primarily because they are illegal. It
>> significantly reduces their ability to ask higher wages. This first
>> reduces the going wage in that specific labor market, and
>> secondarily reduces the going wages in the labor market in general
>> for that geographic area. Legal workers cant ask for more pay for
>> farming (as example) when the employer can just go out and get
>> illegals cheaper. And people in other industries in the area also
>> have reduced ability to tell their employer "Ill just go work for
>> someone else if I cant get more pay here", since there are less
>> choices of other places to go since some jobs choices are
>> monopolized by cheap illegal labor. Everyone that works for a
>> living loses wages to a degree depending on how distant they are
>> from the illegal jobs market.
> Actually, ALL wages are lower due to illegal workers.
Nope, most obviously with the professions.
> If wages are lower in one field, that means that more workers are
attracted to a higher paying job, which creates a
> glut of workers in that higher paying job.
Its MUCH more complicated than that, most obviously with teachers.
> This lowers wages for THAT job, making more workers choose higher paying
jobs, lowering wages in those jobs, and so
> on.
Its MUCH more complicated than that, most obviously with teachers.
> Eventually you get up to the guy who is earning $30 per hour but should
be earning $40 per hour because too many
> illegal workers were willing to work for minimum wage or even less.
Nope, most obviously with doctors, lawyers, teachers, engineers etc etc
etc.
Its only the dregs of the labor market that get the effect you are howling
about.
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