Our Town: The Economist’s Report
Immigration is a hot topic deserving some deeper understanding …
Our Town – Part One
Ira Glass writes: One thing we were excited for, in reporting our two shows about Albertville, was that we could take the claims that many politicians have made about immigrants stealing jobs and driving down wages in Alabama poultry plants, and for once put their claims to the test. Find out if they were right or not.
One of the leading researchers on the economic effects of immigrants, Giovanni Peri, agreed to help us out. We ran his results by several other economists, from different sides of the ideological spectrum, and they assured us the work is solid. Peri would be the first to caution, that any study looking at such a small population doesn’t have the robustness researchers always prefer. There’s more margin for error. But this is what can scientifically be said about the effect of immigrants on the area around one Alabama city.
Listen: Our Town – Part One; Part Two December 15, 2017.
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