首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Immigrants are consumers as well as producers, so they create jobs as well as taking them. And the work they do need not be at t
Immigrants are consumers as well as producers, so they create jobs as well as taking them. And the work they do need not be at t
admin
2014-09-19
62
问题
Immigrants are consumers as well as producers, so they create jobs as well as taking them. And the work they do need not be at the expense of native workers. Immigrants often hold jobs that natives are unwilling to accept at any feasible wage.
Also, immigrants sometimes help to keep industries viable (能存活的) that would otherwise disappear altogether, causing employment to fall. This was the conclusion of a study of the Los Angeles garment industry in the 1970s and 1980s. And when immigrants working for low wages do put downward pressure on natives’ wages, they may raise the (real) wages of natives in general by keeping prices lower than they otherwise would be.
In theory, then, the net effect of immigration on native wages is uncertain. Unfortunately, most of the empirical (经验主义的) research on whether immigrants make natives worse off in practice is also inconclusive except the effect, one way or the other, seems small. Most of this research has been done in America: if there were any marked influence on wages, that is where you would expect to find it, given the scale of immigration and the tendency of the newcomers to concentrate in certain areas. But most studies have compared wages and employment in areas with many immigrants to wages and employment in areas with few. For instance, one examined the impact of sudden and notorious inflow of refugees to Miami from the Cuban port of Mariel in 1980. Within the space of a few months, 125 000 people had arrived, increasing Miami’s labor force by 7%. Yet the study concluded that wages and employment among the city’s natives, including the unskilled, were virtually unaffected. Another study examined the effect of immigration on wages and employment of those at the bottom of the jobs ladder—unskilled blacks and Hispanics. It found that a doubling of the rate of immigration had no detectable effect on natives.
The most recent work, admittedly, has tended to question these findings. Using more detailed statistics and more sophisticated methods than the earlier studies, this work has tended to find that immigrants’ wages take longer to rise to the level of the natives’ wages than has been supposed. This implies a more persistent downward pressure on the host economy’s labor market.
Typically these studies find that immigration does depress unskilled natives’ wages to a small extent. But nearly all economists would agree that the effects of immigration are insignificant in relation to other influences.
The passage is intended to convey that the effect of immigration on natives’ wages is______.
选项
A、uncertain
B、persistent
C、inconclusive
D、insignificant
答案
D
解析
综合理解题。文章主要探讨移民是否会影响本国工人的工资,作者引用调查研究的结果、举例等,目的就是在于说明移民对本国工人的工资的影响相对于其他因素的影响是很小的。所以D是正确答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://www.kaotiyun.com/show/lTWO777K
0
在职攻硕英语联考
相关试题推荐
Opinionpollssuggestthattheapprovalrateofthepresidentisontheincrease.
Researchersproducedevidencetosupportwhatmostofusalreadyknew--thatacupofteaistheanswertoanycrisis.Dr.Ma
Theresearchersareworkinghardtofindtheoptimalconcentrationofthisdrug.
November25istheInternationalDayfortheEliminationofViolenceAgainstWomen.ThisdaywasrecognizedbytheGeneralAssem
Lowinterestratescreatedeasycreditconditions,fuelingahousingconstructionboomandencouragingconsumption.
A、Hewasdisappointedwiththeservice.B、Hewassatisfiedwiththeservice.C、Hefinallygotwhathewanted.D、Hewouldliketo
Mostpeoplebelievethekeytohappyandproductiveretirementyearsisstayinghealthy.Yet,it’snotjustaboutdietandexerc
A、Shealwayshasaflashlightreadilyavailable.B、Sheiswillingtolendthemanherflashlight.C、Shealwaysmisplaceshisfla
Aslongaswearealive,wearelearningand,infact,someofourmostimportantlearningtakesplaceoutsideofschool______
Formillionsofyearsbeforetheappearanceoftheelectriclight,shiftwork,allnightcableTVandtheInternet,Earth’screa
随机试题
(2011年4月)非诉讼法律事务
在已浇筑混凝土强度未达到()N/mm2以前,不得在其上踩踏或安装模板及支架等。
焊接电弧1m范围内的相对湿度应符合()规定。
诗:赋:词
知识产权教育是国家知识产权战略的基点,高校和大学生是国家知识产权战略的重要参与者和实践者,知识产权素质应该是大学生必备的素质。他们或许_______改变社会整体知识产权意识淡薄的问题,但可以先改变自己,_______,给社会树立尊重知识产权的_______
意志行动的基本特性有()。
下列关于减刑的限度条件的说法,错误的是
已知3阶矩阵A的逆矩阵为,试求其伴随矩阵A*的逆矩阵.
以下关于配置IP访问控制列表的描述中,哪个是错误的?______。
Ifyouwanttostayyoung,sitdownandhaveagoodthink.Thisistheresearch【C1】______ofateamofJapanesedoctors,whosay
最新回复
(
0
)