Low Wage Pay Gains

Rkmickey at aol.com Rkmickey at aol.com
Sat Feb 6 08:39:58 PST 1999


Regarding the strong gains for wage earners at the low end of the scale,Doug writes:

<if Shaikh is right and the U.S. is in a long upswing, there could be a lot more where this came from>

and Rakesh writes:

<the US boom is not inspite of but because of the world wide slump>

If you are both right, won't these trends encourage massive movement across borders, with the immigrants putting significant downward pressure on wages in the US, particularly on the wages of unskilled and semiskilled labor?

K. Mickey



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