Welfare magnet hypothesis, fiscal burden and immigration skill selectivity
By: Assaf Razin, Jackline Wahba
Contributors: Wahba, Jackline; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 17515; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 17515.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "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"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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