Native Welfare Losses from High Skilled Immigration

Alexander Kemnitz

No 2409, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: This paper explores the effects of high skilled immigration to a host country with unionized low skilled labor and an unemployment insurance scheme. We show that such immigration can create a negative immigration surplus due to adverse effects on low skilled employment, provided that fiscal redistribution is not too intense and the elasticity between high and low skilled labor is high as empirical evidence suggests.

Keywords: immigration; trade union; unemployment; welfare state; elasticity of substitution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 H53 J50 J61 J65 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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Journal Article: Native welfare losses from high skilled immigration (2009)
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