Department Chair Christopher Worswick was quoted in a Bloomberg story titled Cheap Foreign Labor Soars in Canada as Young Workers Are Left Jobless.
Professor Worswick was quoted from his co-written peer-reviewed work showing firms prefer temporary foreign workers due to their higher efforts for the same wage.
Here are the quotes from the article:
“In a sense what we’re doing is we’re subsidizing those activities by allowing them to bring in low-wage workers rather than make them pay a competitive wage,”
“Wages should go up until labor supply equals labor demand,” Worswick said. “Labor shortages should be filled by wage increases. The only thing stopping a wage increase is the profitability of the firm.”
You can read the article on the Bloomberg website. You can also read Professor Worswick’s work here.