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The following is an excerpt from a text on immigration and labor markets:
'The economic impact of immigration on native workers' wages remains one of the most contested topics in labor economics. George Borjas's influential research argues that large-scale immigration — particularly of low-skilled workers — reduces wages for native workers in the same skill category, with his estimates suggesting wage reductions of up to 8% for the lowest-skilled native workers over several decades. However, Giovanni Peri and colleagues have consistently found near-zero or even positive wage effects for native workers, arguing that immigrants and natives tend to hold complementary rather than directly competitive roles in the labor market. Both sets of researchers use similar data sources but reach opposing conclusions due to differences in how they define local labor markets and skill categories. A National Academy of Sciences report concluded that short-term wage impacts on some native workers may be negative but that long-term effects for the broader economy are generally positive.'
A debater claims: 'Economic research conclusively shows that immigration harms wages for low-skilled native workers.' Which response most precisely uses textual evidence to challenge this claim?
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