High Skilled Immigration Policy and Union Wage Setting

This paper studies the effects of high skilled immigration on employment and net income in the host economy where the market for low skilled labor is distorted by union wage setting and a redistributive unemployment benefit scheme. I show that high skilled immigration can increase as well as decreas...

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Published in:	MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics (Band 21-2011)
Main Author:	Bonn, Moritz
Format:	Work
Language:	English
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Wirtschaft Imperfect Labour Markets Immigration Fiscal Redistribution Economics
Online Access:	PDF Full Text
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