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As other papers by Professor Peri have shown, low-skilled immigrants usually fill gaps in American labor markets and generally enhance domestic business prospects rather than destroy jobs; this occurs because of an important phenomenon, the presence of what are known as "complementary" workers, namely those who add value to the work of others.
Standard economic theory indeed suggests that an immigration-induced increase in labor supply should reduce the wages of competing workers and increase the wages of complementary workers.
The textbook model of a competitive labor market suggests that higher levels of immigration should lower the wage of competing workers and increase the wage of complementary workers, at least in the short run.
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Analyses were performed on two complementary worker cohorts from the Cosali and PrediCTS studies (table 1).
These and other sources of a migrant productivity advantage will be muted in jobs with higher skill requirements if, as seems plausible, skill is complementary with LH workers' local labor market experience, connections and knowledge.
The American government was allied with business, as it has always been, but the interests of business and its workers were complementary.
However, in developing countries, there is a second force that counterbalances the Stolper Samuelson effect: capital-skill complementarity, which means that capital is more complementary to more educated workers.
Health facilities require teams of health workers with complementary skills and responsibilities to efficiently provide quality care.
The network of community health workers receives complementary support around supervision, training, and enhanced data collection and use.
Many health workers generate complementary income by other activities; this is more common in urban than in rural settings (32%and9%9% of staff respectively) [ 17].
Thiel rebutted this line of evidence by arguing that computers are complementary to people: they augment workers; they don't replace them.
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