 Immigration and Labour Market AdjustmentAlexander Hijzen and Douglas Nelson Chapter 10 in Globalisation and Labour Market Adjustment, 2008, pp 174-206 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract Unlike international trade policy, on which economists display a truly impressive level of agreement, immigration policy divides. International trade liberalisation is expected to have distributional effects — in fact, in the standard model, distributional effects are increasing in gains from trade. Many economists find this to be an argument for redistributive policies that turn the potential Pareto improvement into an actual Pareto improvement, but not an argument against trade liberalisation.1 By contrast, at least some economists seem to argue that the presence of such redistributive effects do constitute an objection to a liberal immigration policy.2 Perhaps more surprisingly, these arguments are made in the face of substantial empirical evidence that such redistributive effects are rather small. This survey focuses on this empirical evidence. However, before proceeding to a survey of these results, we begin with a short overview of the theoretical frameworks that have been used to organise and evaluate this research. Keywords: Factor Price; Unskilled Labour; Skill Group; Immigrant Inflow; Skilled Bias Technological Change (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:pal:palchp:978-0-230-58238-5_10 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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