Native Welfare Losses from High Skilled Immigration

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.

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Year of publication:	2007
Authors:	Kemnitz, Alexander
Publisher:	Dresden : Technische Universität Dresden, Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Subject:	Hochqualifizierte Arbeitskräfte \| Einwanderung \| Wohlfahrtseffekt \| Ungelernte Arbeitskräfte \| Gewerkschaftlicher Organisationsgrad \| Substitutionselastizität \| Arbeitslosigkeit \| Theorie \| Immigration \| Trade Union \| Unemployment \| Elasticity of Substitution

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Series:	Dresden Discussion Paper Series in Economics ; 16/07
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	550473742 [GVK] hdl:10419/22757 [Handle] RePEc:zbw:tuddps:1607 [RePEc]
Classification:	F22 - International Migration ; J65 - Unemployment Insurance; Severance Pay; Plant Closings ; J61 - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers ; H53 - Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs ; J5 - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining
Source:	EconStor

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