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.
Title 42 is expiring on Thursday night, a pandemic-era rule allowing the U.S. government to turn away asylum seekers at the border as a public health measure. This comes at a time when apprehensions at the border are already at record highs and Americans give President Biden some of his lowest ratings on his handling of immigration.
In this installment of the podcast, Galen speaks with Georgetown economics professor Anna Maria Mayda about what Americans think of immigration and why, its impacts on the U.S. and its politics, and how that compares with other countries.
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