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Re:When male CEOs have daughters, relative pay for women at ... by bjourne on Monday July 15, 2013 @06:27PM (#6048938)
Whether they are legal or illegal immigrants is irrelevant to the argument presented. The market should identify a "business opportunity" and push salaries upwards to an equilibrium.
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Re:When male CEOs have daughters, relative pay for women at ... by theorique on Monday July 15, 2013 @09:18PM (#6049513)
I think we're agreeing with each other.

There's no pure, efficient, "labor market" but instead lots of small, loosely connected "labor markets" with a variety of inefficiencies - lock-in, friction, imperfect information.

An employer can exploit illegal immigrant labor because it tends to be concentrated in lower-skilled, relatively interchangeable jobs, and because illegal immigrants are in a difficult spot.

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