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Restrictive immigration policy in Germany: pains and gains foregone?
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Abstract Many European countries restrict immigration from new EU member countries. The rationale is to avoid adverse wage and employment effects. We quantify these effects for Germany. Following Borjas (in Q J Econ CXVIII(4):1335–1374, 2003), we estimate a structural model of labor demand, based on elastici... mehr
Many European countries restrict immigration from new EU member countries. The rationale is to avoid adverse wage and employment effects. We quantify these effects for Germany. Following Borjas (in Q J Econ CXVIII(4):1335–1374, 2003), we estimate a structural model of labor demand, based on elasticities of substitution between workers with different experience levels and education. We allow for unemployment which we model in a price-wage-setting framework. Simulating a counterfactual scenario without restrictions for migration from new EU members countries in Germany, we find moderate negative wage and employment effects for incumbent foreigners, but positive effects for natives. Our results indicate that for the native German population as a whole the immigration restrictions are not welfare enhancing.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Bundesrepublik Deutschland; EU-Erweiterung; Migration; Arbeitslosigkeit; Arbeitsmigration; Arbeitskräftenachfrage; Lohn
Klassifikation
Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Arbeitsmarktforschung
Freie Schlagwörter
Labor demand; Wages; Unemployment; EU enlargement; JEL classification: F22; F15; J23
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2010
Seitenangabe
S. 1-21
Zeitschriftentitel
Review of World Economics, 146 (2010) 1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10290-009-0044-z
Status
Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)