Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/51821 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5658
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Temporary and circular migration programs have been devised by many destination countries and supported by the European Commission as a policy to reduce welfare and social costs of immigration in destination countries. In this paper we present an additional reason for proposing temporary migration policies based on the characteristics of the foreign labor-effort supply. The level of effort exerted by migrants, which decreases over their duration in the host country, positively affects production, real wages and capital owners' profits. We show that the acceptance of job offers by migrants result in the displacement in employment of national workers. However it increases the workers' exertion, decreases prices and thus can counter anti-immigrant voter sentiment. Therefore, the favorable sentiment of the capital owners and the local population towards migrants may rise when temporary migration policies are adopted.
Subjects: 
migration
exertion of effort
contracted temporary migration
JEL: 
J0
H0
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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