How much does support of migrants cost the US per year?

George Borjas, Immigration Economics (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014) in his study about the long-term economic effects of immigrants on the wages of local population has discovered that average wages of native workers increase as a result of the immigration in the US. This could be explained by the fact that immigrant workers compliment rather than compete with the local workforce, create new innovative enterprises and are traditionally involved in the professional areas with high demands for their skills such as scientific and technical.Therefore, by an large, the two groups of population are looking for work in different niches of the labor market, and overall there is a long-term benefit that migrant workers bring to the US. The overall positive impact of migrant workers on the US economic growth (GDP), according to Borjas, is estimated to equal 11% of total GDP.

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