Thread: Is immigration behind wage, income inequality? Not so much.

Is immigration behind wage, income inequality? Not so much.

Globalization, technology, union decline, and other factors have caused rich to get rich and poor to get poorer. Immigration plays only a small role.


By Jared Bernstein, Guest blogger / June 23, 2011

In an earlier post today, I listed the factors that I believe are most widely agreed to be behind the increase in wage and income inequality. Here they are again: Globalization, “labor-savingâ€

The christian science monitor never saw an illegal immigrant they didn't like. They love to skew statistics and make up bogus arguments and they have been at it for years. So don't believe a word of the nonsense in the article. The "obvious" and "common sense" fact is what it is. The current wave of mass immigration, ongoing since the 1968 change of immigration law, is a major cause of our current income inequality. Illegal immigration is about 30% of total immigration but illegals are generally disadvantaged compared to legal immigrants and they cause havoc with the income opportunities available to uneducated native workers trying to raise their families. Thus illegal immigration should therefore be held responsible for at least 30% of the inequality gap. This is a very important factor. Stop all immigration in its tracks and watch what happens to incomes after a few years. Lets do a test of these arguments.