tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15602189.post5379836477872222635..comments2023-09-21T16:17:51.838+05:30Comments on Law and Other Things: More comments on migrants v. natives: A responseAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09348738084817273397noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15602189.post-23972973869292321622008-02-18T07:23:00.000+05:302008-02-18T07:23:00.000+05:30I found a study on the impact of Mexican immigrati...I found a <A HREF="http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~GBorjas/Papers/w11281.pdf" REL="nofollow">study</A> on the impact of Mexican immigration into the US through the 20th century. In their conclusions (p. 42), the authors note "Mexican immigrants have much less educational attainment than either native-born workers or non-Mexican immigrants. These differences in human capital account for nearly three-quarters of the very large wage disadvantage suffered by Mexican immigrants in recent decades." I suspect this is similar to the UP/Biharis coming to Bombay which may make their other conclusion (#4) relevant:" The large Mexican influx in recent decades widened the U.S. wage structure by <BR/>adversely affecting the earnings of less-educated native workers and improving the earnings of college graduates. These wage effects have, in turn, lowered the prices of non-traded goods and services that are low-skill labor intensive." If the unskilled, poorly educated <EM>Marathi manoos</EM> have seen their incomes fall likewise (who are perhaps a significant political force that every party has to contend with), they may well be the segment where Raj's rhetoric has struck a chord. That perhaps is also the reason why, as PB Mehta <A HREF="http://www.indianexpress.com/story/274166.html" REL="nofollow">laments</A>, "not one major leader, from Sharad Pawar to Vilasrao Deshmukh, has expressed the requisite sense of outrage or engaged in the kind political symbolism that can assure all Indian citizens that they are not quietly complicit in this dangerous madness."Dilip Raohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18294894305584371011noreply@blogger.com