"Questions that are rarely asked"

"VTProf," via Tyler Cowen:

Another consistency question: can you simultaneously believe that minimum wages have small disemployment effects (implying inelastic demand for labor) and that higher immigration has small negative wage effects (implying elastic demand for labor). Sign me up for relatively elastic demand for labor (in the long run) – that’s why I support immigration and am skeptical about min wage!

This assumes that the demand for immigrant labor and the demand for minimum wage labor are one and the same, which is not necessarily the case.

Some questions are rarely asked because they aren't good questions. Others, because they aren't relevant to the discussion. Still others, well...