Domainfax discovers that lower immigration lifts wages

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By Leith van Onselen

Fairfax’s Clancy Yeates has returned from Chicago where he discovered that the Trump Administration’s lower immigration policy has played a direct role in lifting American workers’ wages:

A recurring theme from American business-owners is that it is getting it hard to get the staff they need… this challenge was being made worse by the Trump administration’s tough stance on immigration.

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About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.