Unit 4: Labor and Efficiency: Resource Markets, Inequality, and Immigration

Lesson 22a: Immigration

Introduction

Immigration is another labor issue that has become an important political topic. We will first study some historical data on U.S. immigration then we will look at two immigration models: 1. a simple immigration model showing the "Impact on Wage Rates, Efficiency, and Output", and 2. a model showing the impact of illegal workers in a low wage labor market The YELLOW PAGES, the LESSONS webpage, and the MICWEBAPP have one page summaries of each of these models. You should find them and study them.

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