Immigration, Occupational Choice and Public Employment

Luca Marchiori (), Patrice Pieretti and Benteng Zou

Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2018, issue 131, 83-116

Abstract: This paper investigates the theoretical effects of immigration in an occupational choice model with three sectors: a low-skilled, a high-skilled and a public sector. The originality of our approach is to consider (i) inter-sectoral mobility of labor and (ii) public employment. The combination of these two features yields a new mechanism by which immigration can have positive effects. The model demonstrates 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: 2018
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DOI: 10.15609/annaeconstat2009.131.0083

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