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Supply of cheap labor lowers wages, not sure why you believe otherwise. There are other things that can lower wages, but cheap supply is a factor.
astrange | parent | next
This is the lump of labor fallacy. Adding people increases demand more than supply, meaning it increases wages. Immigrants also have complementary skills to natives, which further reduces risk.

There is no empirical evidence of anyone's wages being lowered by immigration.

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/repost-why-immigration-doesnt-...

Jensson | root | parent | next
That assumes immigrants are average people, but they are not they mostly work in some sectors. Those sectors will see a wage dump, other sectors might see a wage hike to compensate though.

For example if immigrants are mostly highly paid programmers, you can expect waitresses etc to get a wage hike, but if immigrants are mostly uneducated young women then waitresses will probably see reduces wages.

If you look you can see the groups who compete with the immigrants tend to be more hostile towards immigration, while the groups who doesn't see immigration in their sector aren't as hostile. Most immigrants tend to be men for example, so we would expect men to be more anti immigration since their jobs see more competition from it, and that is also what we see in opinion polling.

amarcheschi | root | parent
The first study brought in example literally has to do with low skilled worker, and as seen it does not affect other workers in a negative way (if I'm getting what the guy is saying in his post)
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tomp | root | parent | next
In Europe, most immigrants (from third-world countries) are on welfare and are net welfare recipients.

see graph here

https://www.reddit.com/r/ScienceUncensored/comments/1565sti/...

from article

https://www.economist.com/europe/2021/12/18/why-have-danes-t...

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