When a person relocates to a country where their labor is more productive, a large amount of new economic value is created. Much of that value is captured by the migrant through higher earnings, but a lot also accrues to the people in the community they join.

So an engineer joining a country that already has engineers still creates a ton of value in the destination country

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Avicebron 7 hours ago | parent [-]

And if they displace someone trying to join the engineering workforce say right out of school? What about housing?

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andrewmutz 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There is no fixed demand for jobs, nor fixed supply of housing. Immigrant consumption creates a lot of jobs and immigrant labor creates a lot of housing

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tadfisher 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Look up the "lump of labour fallacy". The jobs market is not a zero-sum thing.

	▲	Avicebron 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The timescale that the "lump of labour fallacy" operates on, as in the aggregate effects on employement, doesn't necessarily work for most people (individually). Therefore it isn't really a good metric at the scale required to alleviate the problems people are facing. "Eventually it will work out." Isn't proffering a solution.