Immigration and native welfare

Arbeitspapier

We unify two approaches towards identifying native welfare effects of immigration, one emphasizing the immigration surplus (Borjas, 1995,1999), the other identifying a welfare loss due to terms-of-trade effects (Davis & Weinstein, 2002). We decompose the native welfare effect of immigration into the standard complementarity effect, augmented by a Stolper-Samuelson effect, and a terms-of-trade effect. Using a structural model with three skill-classes we derive propositions on the wage and native welfare effects of various immigration scenarios. A calibration-based simulation reveals that the size of the inflow and immigrant income repatriation are key determinants of the welfare-ranking of different immigration scenarios.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Working Paper ; No. 0401

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; International Migration ; Open Economy Macroeconomics ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
• Thema: international migration ; factor movements ; international trade ; non-tradable goods ; welfare analysis ; wages ; general equilibrium ; terms-of-trade ; Einwanderung ; Wohlfahrtsanalyse ; Terms of Trade ; Lohnniveau

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Felbermayr, Gabriel J. ; Kohler, Wilhelm
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Department of Economics
• (wo): Linz
• (wann): 2004

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/73252
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ