By keeping labor supply down, immigration policy tends to keep wages high. Let us underline this basic principle: Limitation of the supply of any grade of labor relative to all other productive factors can be expected to raise its wage rate; and increase in supply will, other things being equal, tend to depress wage rates.
Paul SamuelsonGlobalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.
Paul SamuelsonCompanies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.
Paul SamuelsonIt isn't that greed's increased. What's increased is the realization that you've got a free field to reach out for what you'd like to do.
Paul SamuelsonBy keeping labor supply down, immigration policy tends to keep wages high. Let us underline this basic principle: Limitation of the supply of any grade of labor relative to all other productive factors can be expected to raise its wage rate; and increase in supply will, other things being equal, tend to depress wage rates.
Paul Samuelson