 Unskilled Migration: a Burden or a Boon for the Welfare State?Working Papers from Tel Aviv Abstract: Being relatively low earners, migrants are net beneficiaries of the welfare state. Therefore, in a static setup migration may be resisted by the entire native-born population. However, it is shown that in a dynamic setup with a pension system which is an important pillar of any welfare state, migration is beneficial to all income (high and low) and age (old and young) groups when the economy has a good access to international capital markets. The pro-migration feature of the dynamic model is weakened and possibly overturned when the economy does not have good access to the world capital markets. In this case, to the extent that factor prices are significantly affected by migration because of low substitution between labor and capital, low-skill native born and possibly also high-skill native born may lose. Keywords: MIGRATION; PENSION FUNDS; LABOUR MARKET (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:fth:teavfo:8-99 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Working Papers from Tel Aviv Israel TEL-AVIV UNIVERSITY, THE FOERDER INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH, RAMAT AVIV 69 978 TEL AVIV ISRAEL.. Contact information at EDIRC. |
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