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 …

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 …

We study the effects of high skilled immigration on employment and net income in the receiving economy where the market … empirical fact that high and low skilled workers are close albeit imperfect substitutes, we show that high skilled immigration … improvement can be achieved if the unemployment benefit level remains unaffected by high skilled immigration whereas an overall …

low skill occupations. Basic economic theory thus suggests that immigration has led to a compression of the wage …

natives and that there is no return to pre-immigration work experience, suggesting imperfect transferability of human capital …

operationalize this indirect fiscal effect in a model of immigration and the labor market. We derive closed-form expressions for this … effect that has previously been documented. This challenges the perception of low-skilled immigration as a fiscal burden. …

This paper provides the first evidence on the regional impact of immigration on native employment in a cross …-run estimates show adverse employment effects in response to immigration, while these effects disappear in the longer run. Second …, low-educated native workers experience employment losses due to immigration, whereas high-educated ones are more likely to …