Free vs. controlled migration
Subtitle: bilateral country study
By: Assaf Razin, Jackline Wahba
Contributors: Wahba, Jackline; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16831; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16831.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "This paper tests the differential effects of the generosity of the welfare state under free migration and under policy-controlled migration, distinguishing between source developing and developed countries.  We utilize free-movement within the EU to examine the free migration regime and compare that to immigration into the EU from two other groups, developed and developing source countries, to capture immigration-restricted regimes.  We standardize cross-country education quality differences by using the Hanushek-Woessmann (2009) cognitive skills measure.  We find strong support for the "Magnet Hypothesis" under the free-migration regime, and the "Fiscal Burden Hypothesis" under the immigration- restricted regime even after controlling for differences in returns to skills in source and host countries.  We also find a significant differences across host-country policy regimes in the effects of returns to skills on the skill mix of immigrants"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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