Immigration Control & Long-Run Population Welfare

Gurgen Aslanyan

CERGE-EI Working Papers from The Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education - Economics Institute, Prague

Abstract: The current study assesses the effects of immigration control on the welfare of the current and future population of a host economy. A theoretical model of a small open economy populated with overlapping generations of heterogeneous agents is used to show that skillfavouring immigration policies are, under rather permissive conditions, welfare depriving for the overall population. However, the policy-setting generation is shown to benefit from immigration control, thus decreasing the welfare for the future population.

Keywords: immigration control; intergenerational redistribution; social security (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 E61 F22 H55 J15 J18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-02
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