Disagreement Over the Immigration of Low-Income Earners in a Welfare State
13 Pages Posted: 6 Jan 2006
Abstract
This paper studies natives' economically motivated preferences over different levels of immigration of low-income earners. Immigration affects natives through both intra- and intergenerational redistribution programmes and in the labour market. Our analysis suggests that, in a welfare state that looks after the poor and the aged, economic motivation does not necessarily lead a native to have an extreme opinion on the level of immigration although it causes disagreement among natives. We show that, regardless of parameter values, high-income earners prefer at least as much immigration as low-income earners who in turn prefer at least as much immigration as pensioners. The median voter is then likely to be a low-income native.
Keywords: immigration, welfare state, natives' preferences
JEL Classification: F22, I38
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