the immigration. The arrivals of the past few decades have been nearly all unskilled laborers. Professor Carver believes that continuous immigration which enters the ranks of labor in larger proportion and the business and professional classes in a smaller proportion than the native-born will produce the following results:
- Distribution. It will keep competition more intense among laborers and less intense among business and professional men: it will therefore raise the income of the employing classes and lower the wages of unskilled labor.
- Production. It will give a relatively low marginal productivity to a typical immigrant and make him a relatively unimportant factor in the production of wealth.
- Organization of industry. Immigrants can only be employed economically at low wages and in large gangs, because of (2).
- Agriculture. If large numbers of immigrants should go into agriculture, it will mean one of two things, probably the second:
(a) Continuous subdivision of farms