Does Immigration Make an Economy Less Productive?
It is probably global public knowledge by now that Japan is probably the least immigration-friendly developed country in the world . The number of skilled workers, not to mention unskilled ones or refugees, is puny compared to those taken in by Europe and America in the past decades. And part of the reason that anti-immigration policies persist in the country despite labor shortages is overwhelming support for anti-immigration policies among the general public. And the popular support, unlike in the West, extend to the very top, among the wealthiest and most educated of Japanese citizens.