(of a crop, soil, etc.) producing a yield; productive. First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English: “owing”; yield + -ing 2. But Borjas also found that immigrants boosted the wages of other native-born Americans, yielding a net increase in native-born wages of about 0.6%. More @Wikipedia
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