[finance-geek]

“Across the country, wages are flat. Americans get paid less today than 10 years ago”

His solution has been to advocate increased immigration. Yep, wages are flat, lets bring more people so more people can compete for fewer jobs.

[brandon272]

> His solution has been to advocate increased immigration.

Which doesn't square with his candidate's rigidly anti-immigrant policy proposals.

[blhack]

He isn't "rigidly anti-immigration". He is against immigration of low-skilled workers who are working low paying jobs.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/09/07/trump_c...

[brandon272]

Unfortunately I can't take a policy position made by Donald Trump a little over a month ago seriously because his policy positions have been known to change day to day or even within a single speech.

[blhack]

Fair point.

[megous]

Available jobs increase with population. Additional people need more services, goods, etc. This leads to increased demand. In other words, more people are needed to produce stuff for more people.

[eksu]

Required jobs scale very very poorly with population. I wouldn't be surprised if the rate was something less than 1 additional person in the workforce for every 10 additional people in the population.

[fulafel]

That would mean that countries with larger populations would have higher unemployment rates, but that is not the case.

[finance-geek]

It would mean that any poor country could simply become wealthy by allowing unlimited immigration...Most poor countries are nicer relative to some worse-off country, so certainly there would not be a shortage of immigrants wanting to migrate.

[fulafel]

I think the null hypothesis has to be that there is no correlation between population size and employment.

[rorykoehler]

*in the 20th century

[josho]

Immigration can be very selective. Eg. Meeting minimum education standards, having certain amounts of cash on hand, or targeting those that will start a business. research on this suggests immigration policies tend to create jobs.

[falsestprophet]

"His solution has been to advocate increased immigration. Yep, wages are flat, lets bring more people so more people can compete for fewer jobs."

That isn't true. Peter Thiel has opposed low skill immigration.