Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/37460 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2010: Ökonomie der Familie - Session: Wages, Skills, Immigration and Trade No. F5-V3
Publisher: 
Verein für Socialpolitik, Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
In a search-theoretic two region model, we analyse the impact of unskilled immigration and skill biased technological change on native wages and unemployment in local labour markets. We show that a specific combination of number and skills of immigrants generates a technology adoption of firms leading to insignificant wage changes. Thus our models explains the observed phenomenon of skill biased technological change, wage inequality and high inflows of immigrants in local labour markets. Our analysis also considers possible compensating or magnifying effects of native out-migration.
Subjects: 
search theory
immigration
wage inequality
JEL: 
F22
J31
J60
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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