Mises Daily
Author:
Ludwig von Mises
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He is neither more industrious nor more skillful than the workers of Western Europe. He owes his superior income to the fact that his country clung to “rugged and to the material well-being of the wage earners is the inability of union bosses, of “union economists” and of the less intelligent strata of the workers competing with their own members. Compared with the anti-immigration laws of the European nations, the immigration legislation of the American republics is mild