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Your question touches on jobs, demographics, and shortages — I'll gather current evidence on how immigration affects labor supply. Stopping or sharply reducing immigration is very likely to cause or worsen labor shortages in most advanced economies, but not evenly across all industries - evidence points to concentrated, structural shortages rather than a uniform shortage. 1. Why economists expe

No, not in a simple, permanent, economy-wide sense—but yes, it can (and often does) create or worsen temporary/sectoral tightness, raise wages in immigrant-heavy occupations, slow overall labor force and GDP growth, and force adjustments like higher prices, reduced output, automation, or internal migration. The outcome depends on the scale and suddenness of the stop, the skill mix of immigrants ha