With opposition to immigration now politically fashionable, the beneficiaries of immigration in the public sphere seem to have been struck dumb, especially those within the business sector, which has traditionally benefited from immigration both via the higher demand that a growing population brings and the lower wage pressure from having more workers available.
But what if the beneficiaries of immigration extended beyond the employers who enjoyed better business conditions as a result, or the governments that earned higher tax revenue from it — not to mention the increasingly exorbitant cost of visas? What if, alarmingly, the biggest critics of immigration were the biggest beneficiaries?
A recent study by the US National Bureau of Economic Research examined the links between immigration and older adult health.