Free versus Controlled Migration: Evidence

Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka
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Efraim Sadka: Tel-Aviv University

Chapter 5 in Migration States and Welfare States: Why Is America Different from Europe?, 2014, pp 22-31 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter provides evidence that the generosity of the welfare state attracts a skill composition of migrants which is tilted in the direction of highly skilled migrants when migration is controlled. When migration is free, however, the generosity of the welfare state acts as a magnet to low-skilled migrants, and as a result, the skill composition of migrants tilts in the direction of the low-skilled.

Keywords: Identification; endogeneity; correction for quality of education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137443809_5

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