George Borjas of Harvard University, who compared wages for different kinds of jobs where migrants most obviously compete with natives, estimated that immigration in America in the two decades to 2000 may have kept wages 3% lower than they would otherwise have been.

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Barry Chiswick of the University of Illinois at Chicago says high-tech foreign workers can depress wages in some industries.

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"Of course, we eventually want to pay our teachers decent wages, " says Tang Xingsheng, who is in charge of the university's housing program.

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Mr. ALEX TABARROK (Professor, Economics, George Mason University): It's technology, computers and robots, which have raised the wages of high skilled workers and pushed down the wages of low skilled workers.

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Nancy Folbre, an economist at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, argued in her 2008 book "Valuing Children" that forgone wages should be included in the cost of raising children.

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"The week ahead is undoubtedly a big one but the possibility of Glyndwr University buying the Racecourse and Colliers Park to enable the owners to clear the debt, pay players' wages and sell the club to the Trust is very much still alive, " the WST statement added.

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