The Impact of Worker Effort on Public Sentiment Towards Temporary Migrants

Gil Epstein and Alessandra Venturini
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Alessandra Venturini: University of Turin, CARIM, IZA

No 310, Development Working Papers from Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano, University of Milano

Abstract: Temporary and circular migration programs have been devised by many destination countries and supported by the European Commission as a policy to reduce welfare and social costs of immigration in destination countries. In this paper we present an additional reason for proposing temporary migration policies based on the characteristics of the foreign labor-effort supply. The level of effort exerted by migrants, which decreases over their duration in the host country, positively affects production, real wages and capital owners\' profits. We show that the acceptance of job offers by migrants result in the displacement in employment of national workers. However it increases the workers\' exertion, decreases prices and thus can counter anti-immigrant voter sentiment. Therefore, the favorable sentiment of the capital owners and the local population towards migrants may rise when temporary migration policies are adopted.

Keywords: Migration; Exertion of effort; Contracted Temporary Migration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J08 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26
Date: 2011-05-09, Revised 2011-05-09
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