The thing is, though, that while immigrants increase the supply of labor they're also consumers who increase the demand for labor. That's why you don't tend to see wages go down after exogenous immigration shocks like the Cuban boat lift in Miami. Well, non-English-speaking immigrants do actually tend to depress the wages of resident non-English-speakers somewhat but not the wages of English-speakers.
>The thing is, though, that while immigrants increase the supply of labor they're also consumers who increase the demand for labor.
Unless there is an increase in productivity, which if you read the article, would be apparent.
That is increase the labor supply while simultaneously increasing labor productivity and you will see a real drop in demand for laborers which is naturally going to result in a stagnation of wages. That is the extra demand created by the wave of low wage immigrants is more than made up with the increases in productivity in that same time period. Now you have a macro economy much more efficient at concentrating wealth.
