Assertion: immigrant's effect | /r/HasProperty | positive
Facets:
value: for the native population
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: for public coffers
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: for the u.s.
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: as a whole
type: MANNER
value: most likely
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Whereas the impact on the average native tends to be small and positive, studies show more mixed results for low-skilled natives, but whether the effects are positive or negative, they tend to be small either way.
text: Whereas the impact on the average native tends to be small and positive, studies show more mixed results for low-skilled natives, but whether the effects are positive or negative, they tend to be small either way.
text: Immigrants may often do types of work that natives are largely unwilling to do, contributing to greater economic prosperity for the economy as a whole: for instance, Mexican migrant workers taking up manual farm work in the United States has close to zero effect on native employment in that occupation, which means that the effect of Mexican workers on U.S. employment outside farm work was therefore most likely positive, since they raised overall economic productivity.
text: Research on the economic effects of undocumented immigrants is scant but existing peer-reviewed studies suggest that the effects are positive for the native population and public coffers.
text: The overall effect of immigration on economic growth was positive.
text: Research on the economic effects of illegal immigration is scant but existing studies suggest that the effects can be positive for the native population, and for public coffers.
text: Immigrants likely compete most directly against other immigrants so the effects on less-skilled native-born Americans might be very small or even positive.
text: The study found that if today's immigrants and their descendants use services and pay taxes over the course of their lifetimes in a manner similar to immigrants and their descendants in the past, then an immigrant who enters today will begin to have a positive effect on public coffers in about 22 years.
text: Economists generally find that immigrants have a positive effect on the economy in aggregate and even on the wages and job prospects for most native-born workers.
text: In their best model (results in Table 8-14), immigrants who are high-school dropouts have a net-positive fiscal impact on government coffers if they arrive before age 25 while the most educated immigrants have a negative effect if they arrive after age 64.
text: While Mayda and Peri note that some low-skilled American workers would see marginal gains, it is likely that the effects on net job creation and wages would be negative for the U.S. as a whole.
text: If this had been included in the calculation, then the overall effect on the economic well-being of natives is likely to be negative.