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Is tightening immigration policy good for workers in the receiving economy?

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  • Akira Yakita

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Long-term effects of tightening immigration policies on native workers of a host country are analyzed using a small open overlapping-generation model. Such a policy is intended to protect native workers from losing income and possibly jobs. Results demonstrate that a stricter policy raises the unskilled wage rate as expected, but it might also raise the skilled-wage rate even if skilled and unskilled labors are (technically) complementary. Such a policy also lowers the average education level of the country. If skilled and unskilled labors are sufficiently substitutable, then the policy might instead increase immigration inflows to the host country.

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  • Akira Yakita, 2021. "Is tightening immigration policy good for workers in the receiving economy?," Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science, Springer, vol. 5(3), pages 975-991, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:apjors:v:5:y:2021:i:3:d:10.1007_s41685-021-00192-w
    DOI: 10.1007/s41685-021-00192-w
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    Keywords

    Education; Immigration policy; Skilled–unskilled labor complementarity;
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    JEL classification:

    • D15 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Intertemporal Household Choice; Life Cycle Models and Saving
    • F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
    • F66 - International Economics - - Economic Impacts of Globalization - - - Labor
    • O24 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy - - - Trade Policy; Factor Movement; Foreign Exchange Policy

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