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Why Should We Restrict Immigration?
5 Why Should We Restrict Immigration? Bryan CaplanConsider the following thought experiment: Moved by theplight of desperate earthquake victims, you volunteer to work as arelief worker in Haiti. After two weeks, you re ready to go , when you arrive at the airport, customs officials tellyou that you re forbidden to enter the United States. You go to theAmerican consulate to demand an explanation. But the officialresponse is simply, The United States does not have to explainitself to you. You don t have to be a libertarian to admit that this seems like amonstrous injustice.
The documented wage elasticities are small and clustered near zero. Dustmann et al. (2008) likewise found very little evidence for wage effects in their review of the UK experi-ence. This parallels an earlier conclusion by Friedberg and Hunt (1995) that immigration had little impact on native 32739_Ch02_Caplan_19016_Cato 12/29/11 2:02 PM Page 7
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