Friday, May 25, 2007

Who Whom?

Here's somthing for the editors of the Wall Street Journal to ponder:

A new study finds that immigration has slowed wage growth in both the United States and Canada.

But there's an interesting complication.

Because Canadian policy favors highly educated immigrants, in Canada it is the wages of college graduates that have been restrained by immigration, narrowing the wage gap between the best-educated and least-educated Canadians.

In the US, where policy favors uneducated immigrants, the effect of immigration has been to widen the wage gap between the least educated and the best-educated Americans.

Do you suppose there would be equal enthusiasm for open immigration in the upper reaches of American life if it were our standard of living that was being squeezed?

05/25 08:27 PM