City X Has a Large Fraction of Illegal Immigrants; Its

question 29

Multiple Choice

City X has a large fraction of illegal immigrants; its native high school dropouts earn $17 an hour.City Y has a small fraction of illegal immigrants; its native high school dropouts earn $18 an hour.This suggests that illegal immigrants have a small effect on drop-out wages.Which of the following,if true and present,would suggest the true negative effect of illegal immigrants on dropout wages is much larger?

• A) Illegal immigrants tend to locate in cities with lots of low-wage jobs.
• B) Illegal immigrants and high school dropouts are gross complements.
• C) Falling wages induces a capital inflow into a city.
• D) A large fraction of illegal immigrants in a city causes native high-school drop outs to move out of the city and move where there are fewer illegal immigrants.

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