The growth and welfare effects of international mass migration

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Lundborg, P; Segerstrom, PS
• 署名单位: University of Gothenburg; Stockholm School of Economics
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-1996
• DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1996(01)00105-2
• 发表日期: 2002
• 页码: 177-204
• 关键词: MIGRATION; GROWTH

摘要

We analyze the effects of immigration quotas on growth and welfare in a North-South version of the quality ladders growth model. Quotas in the North increase the growth rate. However, they lower the static utility level and the discounted welfare of Northern workers. Also the discounted welfare of asset owners drops. Hence, unlike in the static migration model where the representative agent in the host country benefits from immigration, in our dynamic model, the representative agent loses despite a positive growth effect. Winners from immigration quotas are the immigrants and the remaining workers in the South. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.