Can Immigrant Employment Alleviate the Demographic Burden? The Role of Union Centralization

Alexander Kemnitz

No 13/06, Dresden Discussion Paper Series in Economics from Technische Universität Dresden, Faculty of Business and Economics, Department of Economics

Abstract: We examine how labor immigration affects public pensions under centralized wage setting. We show that immigration improves the sustainability of pay-as-you-go pensions if and only if total employment declines. This occurs if the labor demand elasticity exceeds the unemployment rate.

Keywords: Immigration; Public Pensions; Trade Union (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 H55 J51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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