Native Welfare Losses from High Skilled Immigration

Alexander Kemnitz

No 16/07, Dresden Discussion Paper Series in Economics from Technische Universität Dresden, Faculty of Business and Economics, Department of Economics

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 the elasticity between high and low skilled labor is high as empirical evidence suggests.

Keywords: Immigration; Trade Union; Unemployment; Elasticity of Substitution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 H53 J5 J61 J65 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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Journal Article: Native welfare losses from high skilled immigration (2009)
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