Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20853 
Year of Publication: 
1998
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 7
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Based on the current European discussion about immigration policy, this paper gives an overview of central economic consequences of immigration for a host country?s labor market. The most important theoretical arguments are presented and evaluated against the available empirical evidence. The paper concludes that immigration cannot per se be considered as good or bad for the labor market. Its impact on employment, wages and wealth depends crucially on the design of immigration policy. Immigration of selected workers may create gains in efficiency which also result in positive distributive effects, not only for capital but also for native labor.
Subjects: 
immigration policy
immigrant labor
wages
unemployment
JEL: 
J68
J64
J61
J31
F22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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