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Mexican immigrants to US raise world income

The typical individual who migrates from a poor developing country to the United States sees an increase in income by a factor of four, largely as a result of the immense international differences in labor productivity that exist in the world today.

…I estimate that migration from Mexico to the United States raises global income by an amount equivalent to roughly one percent of US GDP.

That is Gordon Hanson.

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