Welfare effects of illegal immigration |
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Authors: | Theodore Palivos |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Economics, University of Macedonia, 156 Egnatia Street, 540 06 Salonica, Greece |
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Abstract: | This paper analyzes the welfare effect of illegal immigration on the host country within a dynamic general equilibrium framework
and shows that it is positive for two reasons. First, immigrants are paid less than their marginal product, and second, after
an increase in immigration, domestic households find it optimal to increase their holdings of capital. It is also shown that
dynamic inefficiency may arise, despite the fact that the model is of the Ramsey type. Nevertheless, the introduction of a
minimum wage, which leads to job competition between domestic unskilled workers and immigrants reverses all of the above results.
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Keywords: | Economic growth Illegal immigration |
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