Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/95990 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2010-04
Publisher: 
Bar-Ilan University, Department of Economics, Ramat-Gan
Abstract: 
I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous population, and incentives for investment in human capital combine to predict the decline of the West. In particular, indigenous low-skilled workers lose from unskilled immigration even if the indigenous lowskilled workers do not finance redistribution, do not compete with immigrants in the labor market, and do not compete with immigrants for publicly financed income transfers. For the economy at large, high-fertility unskilled immigrants and a lowfertility indigenous population result in economic decline through reduced human capital accumulation and reduced growth of per-capita output.
Subjects: 
immigration
redistribution
ethnic diversity
fertility
human capital
economic growth
JEL: 
D3
F22
J1
O4
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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