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
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: ifo Working Paper ; No. 80

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
National Deficit; Surplus
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
Thema
Immigration
native welfare
education structure
immigration surplus
Einwanderung
Hochqualifizierte Arbeitskräfte
Bevölkerung
Bildungsverhalten
Qualifikation
Wohlfahrtsanalyse
Theorie

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Geis, Wido
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2009

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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

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