MASS MIGRATION, UNIONS, AND GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION

• 成果类型: Article; Proceedings Paper
• 署名作者: SCHMIDT, CM; STILZ, A; ZIMMERMANN, KF
• 署名单位: University of Munich; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/0047-2727(94)90051-5
• 发表日期: 1994
• 页码: 185-201
• 关键词: MIGRATION; unions; HETEROGENUS LABOR; MIGRATION POLICY

摘要

The widening gap between the dismal economic situation in the less developed economies and the economic prospects of migrant to Western economies has generated a potential for mass migration. At the same time, the developed economies have experienced high and persistent unemployment among their unskilled workers who would have to compete with new immigrants. We use a model that distinguishes labor markets by skill and concentrate on the imperfectly competitive mechanism of wage determination in the unskilled labor market to demonstrate that additional immigration might be beneficial precisely because of potential replacement effects. If the wages of skilled workers are positively affected by additional unskilled labor, this may lead to higher employment and output. Our results thus qualify standard economic reasoning based on competitive models or on the literature on rural-urban migration in developing countries.