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Immigration Restrictions Worsened the Labor Crunch

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Is There a Tight Labor Market?

If we had to put a number on a the emigrants we might have otherwise had from 20 19 through to day that we ultimately did not get, how big would that number be? It's about two millionabout two million a imigrants would be in the country with work authorization if the trends had continued. Some industries are, you know, extremely tight labor markets. And so there is an enormous amount of work that is going undone as a result of this labor shortage.

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