Immigration and Pension Benefits in the Host-country

Juan Lacomba () and Francisco Lagos

No E2004/77, Economic Working Papers at Centro de Estudios Andaluces from Centro de Estudios Andaluces

Abstract: This paper examines the role that low-skilled immigrant labor force plays in determining the benefits of the public pension of the host population. With an overlapping-generations model in continuous time which allows to identify which groups of native population are better or worse off with immigration and a fully redistributive pension system, we find that the retirement benefits and hence the welfare levels of the host population are affected in a different way whether sharing or not pension benefits with immigrants. In this sense, the youngest local population may prefer, contrary to the oldest ones, a policy of closed borders.

Keywords: Immigration; welfare; pension benefits. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21 pages
Date: 2004
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