Immigration and the survival of the welfare state
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- dc.contributor.author Ortega, Francescca
- dc.contributor.other Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa
- dc.date.accessioned 2017-07-26T10:50:13Z
- dc.date.available 2017-07-26T10:50:13Z
- dc.date.issued 2004-12-01
- dc.date.modified 2017-07-23T02:09:05Z
- dc.description.abstract This paper analyzes the political sustainability of the welfare state in a model where immigration policy is also endogenous. In the model, the skills of the native population are affected by immigration and skill accumulation. Moreover, immigrants affect future policies, once they gain the right to vote. The main finding is that the long-run survival of redistributive policies is linked to an immigration policy specifying both skill and quantity restrictions. In particular, in steady state the unskilled majority admits a limited inflow of unskilled immigrants in order to offset growth in the fraction of skilled voters and maintain a high degree of income redistribution. Interestingly, equilibrium immigration policy shifts from unrestricted skilled immigration, when the country is skill-scarce, to restricted unskilled immigration, as the fraction of native skilled workers increases. The analysis also suggests a new set of variables that may help explain international differences in immigration restrictions.
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- dc.identifier https://econ-papers.upf.edu/ca/paper.php?id=815
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/814
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.relation.ispartofseries Economics and Business Working Papers Series; 815
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- dc.subject.keyword repeated voting
- dc.subject.keyword markov equilibrium
- dc.subject.keyword political economy
- dc.subject.keyword immigration policy
- dc.subject.keyword welfare state
- dc.subject.keyword redistribution
- dc.subject.keyword skill premium
- dc.subject.keyword education
- dc.subject.keyword Macroeconomics and International Economics
- dc.subject.keyword Labour, Public, Development and Health Economics
- dc.title Immigration and the survival of the welfare stateca
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