skills for employment and unemployment

• Significance On Employment immigration?

  fill vacancies that local citizens can't (or won't) fill

  • are manual labour, dangerous, and low skilled jobs
• what does increased supply of labour push down?

  wages in the economy, especially for low skilled jobs

  • Lower average wages are an incentive for employers to hire more workers
• what does increased supply of labour cause?

  Employment increases as a result
• what does Immigration result in?

  an increased population which increases consumption in the economy

  • Greater output requires more labour so it creates more jobs