Borjas On Supply And Demand
05/29/2007
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George Borjas's Blog has a post where he notes that Canada's Toronto Globe & Mail has an editorial about a recent paper he co-wrote. They write

Immigrants and wages

May 28, 2007 Few Canadians would be surprised to learn that immigrants pull down the wages of the domestic workers whom they challenge for jobs. That has been the law of supply and demand since humans first scrabbled to make a living.

Borjas asks

Can someone please teach the crowd at the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal some of those basic economic principles? [The Borjas Blog: Canadians Know Their Supply and Demand]

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