Wage Effects of Immigration in a Bargaining Economy

Per Lundborg

No 2013:2, SULCIS Working Papers from Stockholm University, Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies - SULCIS

Abstract: Most empirical studies on wage effects of immigration disregard common labour market institutions like the requirement of job offer before entry to the host country and wage bargaining. The model presented here accounts for these institutions and finds a rationale for the empirical studies’ treatment of the migrant share as a determinant of natives’ wages. A higher migrant share is shown to lower the native’s wage but only temporarily. After assimilation the wage subsequently returns to its original level. The results suggest that empirical studies of wage effects of immigration should focus on unassimilated immigrants having low reservation wages.

Keywords: Immigration; bargaining; institutions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J53 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16 pages
Date: 2013-02-14
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-lab, nep-lma and nep-mig
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