Arbeitspapier
Does Educational Choice Erode the Immigration Surplus?
Many countries pursue an immigration policy that is targeted at attracting high skilled workers. Borjas (1995) has shown that assuming perfect labor markets immigration leads to a welfare gain for the native population, the so-called immigration surplus. Thus, as the labor market for high skilled workers exhibits few frictions, high skilled immigration should lead to a welfare gain. Nevertheless, this argumentation implicitly assumes that immigration has no influence on the qualification structure of natives. In this paper I show that if natives anticipate high skilled immigration, fewer natives acquire a high education level. In labor markets that are not frictionless this effect can be such strong that high skilled immigration leads to a welfare loss for natives. Moreover, if high skilled migration is expected but not realized, this expectation generates a welfare loss.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: ifo Working Paper ; No. 80
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
National Deficit; Surplus
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
- Thema
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Immigration
native welfare
education structure
immigration surplus
Einwanderung
Hochqualifizierte Arbeitskräfte
Bevölkerung
Bildungsverhalten
Qualifikation
Wohlfahrtsanalyse
Theorie
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Geis, Wido
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
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ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
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Munich
- (wann)
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2009
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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20.09.2024, 08:23 MESZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Geis, Wido
- ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
Entstanden
- 2009