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Free versus Controlled Migration: Evidence

In: Migration States and Welfare States: Why Is America Different from Europe?

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  • Assaf Razin

    (Cornell University
    Tel Aviv University)

  • Efraim Sadka

    (Tel-Aviv University)

Abstract

This chapter provides evidence that the generosity of the welfare state attracts a skill composition of migrants which is tilted in the direction of highly skilled migrants when migration is controlled. When migration is free, however, the generosity of the welfare state acts as a magnet to low-skilled migrants, and as a result, the skill composition of migrants tilts in the direction of the low-skilled.

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  • Assaf Razin & Efraim Sadka, 2014. "Free versus Controlled Migration: Evidence," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Migration States and Welfare States: Why Is America Different from Europe?, chapter 5, pages 22-31, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-44380-9_5
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137443809_5
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