GROWTH AND WELFARE EFFECTS OF WORLD MIGRATION

Paul Levine (), Emanuela Lotti (), Joseph Pearlman and Richard Pierse

Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2010, vol. 57, issue 5, 615-643

Abstract: Using a two‐bloc endogenous growth model calibrated to two generic sending and receiving countries of equal size, we assess the growth and welfare impact of world migration flows of different skill compositions. The sending country (East) has a lower total factor productivity and a lower endowment of skilled labour. Migration can induce two growth‐enhancing effects: an efficiency effect from the more efficient use of labour in the receiving country (West) and a sectoral reallocation effect from a fall in the host country skilled–unskilled wage rates. Despite growth gains, there are both winners (migrants, the representative Western non‐migrant household) and losers (the representative Eastern household remaining). Remittances can see the latter group joining the winners.

Date: 2010
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