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Restrictive immigration policy in Germany: pains and gains foregone?
Many European countries restrict immigration from new EU member countries. The rationale is to avoid adverse wage and employment effects. We quantify these effects for Germany. Following Borjas (in Q J Econ CXVIII(4):1335–1374, 2003), we estimate a structural model of labor demand, based on elasticities of substitution between workers with different experience levels and education. We allow for unemployment which we model in a price-wage-setting framework. Simulating a counterfactual scenario without restrictions for migration from new EU members countries in Germany, we find moderate negative wage and employment effects for incumbent foreigners, but positive effects for natives. Our results indicate that for the native German population as a whole the immigration restrictions are not welfare enhancing.
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Seite(n): 1-21
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Englisch
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Status: Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
- Bibliographic citation
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Review of World Economics, 146(1)
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Wirtschaft
Arbeitsmarktforschung
Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Bundesrepublik Deutschland
EU-Erweiterung
Migration
Arbeitslosigkeit
Arbeitsmigration
Arbeitskräftenachfrage
Lohn
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Felbermayr, Gabriel
Geis, Wido
Kohler, Wilhelm
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Veröffentlichung
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Deutschland
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2010
- DOI
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-214091
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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
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- Felbermayr, Gabriel
- Geis, Wido
- Kohler, Wilhelm
Time of origin
- 2010
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