Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/75621 
Year of Publication: 
1999
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 215
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
The paper analyses the welfare effects of immigration when some sectors of the economy are characterized by wage bargaining between unions and employers. We show that immigration is unambiguously beneficial if the wage elasticity of labor demand in the competitive sectors is smaller than in the unionised sectors. In the opposite case, the welfare effect of immigrat ion is ambiguous; little immigration then reduces the native population's welfare, whereas large scale immigration tends to enhance welfare.
Subjects: 
Immigration policy
trade unions
welfare
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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