Unemployment Insurance, Immigrants' Skills, and Native Earnings
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 24049537 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexander Kemnitz (0000-0002-5574-2576, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 111-139 |
| Publication date | 2004-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | FinanzArchiv (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0015-2218 • E-ISSN: 1614-0974 |
| Publisher | Mohr Siebeck (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1628/001522104774102824 |
| OpenAlex | W1984116703 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
This paper investigates the effect of immigration on native earnings in the presence of unemployment and various social insurance policies. If immigration decreases the economy-wide skill ratio and the welfare state is actuarially fair, total native earnings increase under the constant-replacement-ratio policy, while they decrease under both the constant-benefit and the constant-average-income policy. If, however, immigrants improve the economy-wide skill ratio, natives as a whole gain unambiguously, but most under a constant benefit. The ranking between social policies is robust with respect to general taxation, but can reverse when native educational choices are endogenous.
Business · Demographic economics · Earnings · Economic growth · Economics · Immigration · Labour economics · Political science · Unemployment · Economic Policies and Impacts · Finance · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Migration and Labor Dynamics
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |