Immigration, occupational choice and public employment

Luca Marchiori (luca.marchiori@bcl.lu), Patrice Pieretti and Benteng Zou

DEM Discussion Paper Series from Department of Economics at the University of Luxembourg

Abstract: This paper investigates the theoretical effects of immigration in an occupa- tional choice model with three sectors: a low-skilled, a high-skilled and a pu- blic sector. The originality of our approach is to consider (i) intersectoral mobi- lity of labor and (ii) public employment. We highlight the fact that including a public sector is crucial, since omitting it implies that low-skilled immigration un- ambiguously reduces wages and welfare of all workers. However, when public employment is considered, we demonstrate that immigration increases wages in the high-skilled and the public sectors, provided that the immigrant workforce is not too large and the access to public jobs is not too easy. The average wage of natives may also increase accordingly. Moreover, immigration may improve workers' welfare in each sector. Finally, the mechanism underlying these results does not require complementarity between natives and immigrants,

Keywords: Immigration; occupational choice model; public employment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H44 J24 J45 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-lab, nep-lma and nep-mig
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Related works:
Journal Article: Immigration, Occupational Choice and Public Employment (2018)
Working Paper: Immigration, occupational choice and public employment (2016)
Working Paper: Immigration, occupational choice and public employment (2015)
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