Climate change is hardly irrelevant to the refugee crisis.Mass migration to Europe started in the 90s.
Let's not confuse things and throw in random stuff like climate change.
Your links are mostly think tank garbage and speculative.Let's break your lies:
http://www.accessecon.com/Pubs/EB/20...V35-I1-P69.pdf
24% increase in inequality.
Or:
http://www.fairus.org/DocServer/rese...Report2013.pdf
Also lovely Chinese researchers who aren't affected by the ideological bias of the West also find that immigration causes inequality.
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/201...rse-in-the-us/
Which quite frankly overrules a study based on the single malfunctioning state of California.
But even if we wanted to stick to it:
http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/report/R_299DRR.pdf
Which translates to: if you take in mostly poor people, inequality increases (makes too much sense amirite).
I told you that this excuse ''no empirical evidence'' was baseless.
Economics isn't natural science, hence speaking of ''empirical evidence'' is overreaching. You can find dozens of studies on anything supporting or disproving the same thing.
Borjas and David Card are the leading experts in this field and their work is much better in keeping "all else equal".
David Card, for example, uses natural experiments to analyse the issue. Here is his famous study on the mariel boatlift:
http://davidcard.berkeley.edu/papers/mariel-impact.pdf, which analyses the effect on wages by a sudden influx of migrants and compares the earnings there to other cities which did not see similar inflows.
Here is another one that is absolutely awesome in that uses the rich body of data from Denmark: http://ftp.iza.org/dp8961.pdf
It finds "robust evidence that less skilled native workers responded to refugee
immigration, mainly composed of low-educated individuals in manual-intensive
jobs, by increasing significantly their mobility towards more complex occupations
and away from manual tasks. Immigration also increased native low skilled wages
and made them more likely to move out of the municipality. We do not observe an
increased probability of unemployment, nor a decrease in employment for unskilled
natives."
In other words. Immigration enhanced incomes and allowed people to find better paying occupations, which makes sense.
These are studies conducted in an environment of a natural experiment. They are, insofar as we have such a thing, a gold standard in social science. This is what I mean by empirical evidence. Your sources are basically speculation about a larger economy with multiple factors affecting things like wages.
Ok fine. Let's ban competition. Let's create monopolies everywhere and ban all imports.Given that the seller's income is halved
it'd require prices to be halved, but we just saw he didn't halve his own prices.
Something isn't corresponding there.
I mean, high prices are good, right?
Prosperity bad.
I mean, if I spend 10 bucks less on a haircut, I can use that 10 bucks to buy additional groceries. Lower prices encourage additional consumption, which in turn increases demand, which in turn creates more jobs.
You're saying my purchasing power wasn't increased by having more money?Their income is also halved so there's no ''higher purchasing power''. And there crumbles your whole reasoning.
Ok. Service sector jobs are not being outsourced. Even within countries, service sector jobs tend to be local to the cities where they consumers are found.And business will outsource to China so that they don't have to deal with your unions, or employ illegal immigrants thanks to your trade deals and your immigration policies.
If you lose your service sector job to an illegal immigrant, you're a really awful at your job and should search for something else to do.
I don't deal with think tank garbage.
Think tanks are institutions whose sole purpose is to lie to you. Even if they are left wing.
Most studies on job losses indicate that technology is far more likely to take away middle income jobs than outsourcing. Thus, the process is pretty much inevitable and not the result of some sinister trade pacts. The solution is redistribution, service sector unions and, in the US especially, healthcare reforms.