Welfare magnet hypothesis, fiscal burden and immigration skill selectivity
Razin, Assaf and Wahba, Jackline (2011) Welfare magnet hypothesis, fiscal burden and immigration skill selectivity. Cambridge, US, National Bureau of Economic Research, 42pp.
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This paper revisits the magnet hypothesis and investigates the impact of the welfare generosity on the difference between skilled and unskilled migration rates. The main purpose of the paper is to assess the role of mobility restriction on shaping the effect of the welfare state genrosity. In a free migration regime, the impact is expected to be negative on the skill composition of migrants while in a restricted mobility regime, the impact will be the opposite, as voters will prefer selective migration policies, favoring skilled migrants who tend to be net contributors to the fiscal system. We utilize the free labor movement within EUR (the EU, Norway and Switzerland) and the restricted movement from outside of the EUR to compare the free migration
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social and Human Sciences > Social Sciences > Economics |
| Item ID: | 209517 |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Feb 2012 11:23 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Feb 2012 11:23 |
| Contributors: | Razin, Assaf (Author) Wahba, Jackline (Author) |
| Date: | October 2011 |
| Status: | Published |
| Publisher: | National Bureau of Economic Research |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/209517 |
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