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Immigration, Search, and Redistribution: A Quantitative Assessment of Native Welfare / Michele Battisti, Gabriel Felbermayr, Giovanni Peri, Panu Poutvaara.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Battisti, Michele.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w20131.
- NBER working paper series no. w20131
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Immigration, Search, and Redistribution
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2014.
- Summary:
- We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search frictions, wage bargaining, and a redistributive welfare state. Our quantitative analysis suggests that, in all 20 countries studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit in two thirds of countries, contrary to what models without search frictions predict. Median total gains from migration are 1.19% and 1.00% for high and low skilled natives, respectively.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- May 2014.
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