Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/22757 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Dresden Discussion Paper Series in Economics No. 16/07
Publisher: 
Technische Universität Dresden, Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Dresden
Abstract: 
This paper explores the effects of high skilled immigration to a host country with unionized low skilled labor and an unemployment insurance scheme. We show that such immigration can create a negative immigration surplus due to adverse effects on low skilled employment, provided that the elasticity between high and low skilled labor is high as empirical evidence suggests.
Subjects: 
Immigration
Trade Union
Unemployment
Elasticity of Substitution
JEL: 
F22
J65
J61
H53
J5
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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