Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/56055 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
Diskussionsbeiträge No. 2012/5
Publisher: 
Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Berlin
Abstract: 
We apply a monopoly trade union model and analyze employment, wage and budgetary effects of (i) an inflow of migrant workers and (ii) an increase in the labor market participation rate of migrants. Per assumption, natives and migrants solely differ with respect to the level of benefit claims in a two-tier welfare system. Furthermore, the labor effects are studied under two types of union behavior. Analyzing the ceteris paribus labor market effects, we identify hidden costs and benefits of intensified integration that emerge from the design of the welfare program. We support previous findings in case of an inflow of migrant workers. More interesting, though, it is shown that a larger share of migrants in the workforce increases (decreases) the employment level, if the union represents (does not represent) migrant workers.
Subjects: 
migration
welfare state
trade union
JEL: 
F22
H53
J15
J2
J5
J61
R23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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