Question: Worker mobility. The chart shows skill ratios for various major US cities from a 2011 Brookings Institute report:

1. Assuming the majority of immigration comes from Central and South America, explain why many Southern cities (Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami) have low skill level ratios and many northern cities (Baltimore, Washington, Boston) have high skill level ratios. Give one example based on direct costs and one based on psychic costs.
2. Suppose the United States erected a wall on its border with Mexico that increased the cost of illegally immigrating to the United States. What effect would that have on wages and quantity of illegal immigrants in the country? What effect would this have on the skill levels of all immigrants entering the United States?

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