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How Immigration Shapes American Politics

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The Effects of Immigrants Arriving in the United States

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Every time a group of individuals who are poor than individuals at destination arrive, they are going to decrease average income through composition effects. And so they are likely to have this type of effect from a fiscal point of view. Now, we also find that high-skilled migrants have the opposite effect. They increase per capita tax revenues, they increase per capita public expenditures. So basically, what we find is that although low-skilled migrants had a negative impact, that negative impact was offset by the arrival of high- skilled migrants.

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