On the welfare implications of temporary and permanent immigration

• Autorzy: Slobodan Djajić
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

This paper uses a two-sector model of a fully-employed open economy, producing traded and nontraded goods, to examine how temporary and permanent immigration affect the host country. The focus is on the implications for welfare, factor rewards, and relative prices of traded goods in terms of non-traded goods. What distinguishes temporary from permanent migrants in the present setting is their pattern of consumption, the bundle of productive factors they bring to the host country, and the magnitude of remittances they send back to the source country. Due to these differences, admitting a temporary rather than a permanent migrant is shown to reduce the scarcity of labour relative to capital, raise the relative price of traded goods in terms of non-traded goods, and improve the level of welfare of the native population in the host country.(original abstract)

W pracy wykorzystano dwusektorowy model pełnego zatrudnienia w otwartej gospodarce, w celu zbadania jak okresowa i stała imigracja wpływa na kraj pełniący rolę gospodarza. Skoncentrowano się na konsekwencjach dla dobrobytu, wskaźnikach satysfakcji i względnych cenach towarów handlowych w odniesieniu do towarów niehandlowych. Tym co odróżnia migrantów stałych od okresowych to ich model konsumpcji, pakiet wskaźników produktywności, jaki wnoszą do kraju przyjmującego i wielkość przekazów pieniężnych, jakie wysyłają do kraju macierzystego. Z powodu tych różnic przemawiających na korzyść okresowej migracji, pokazano obniżenie niedostatku pracy względem kapitału, podniesienie względnej ceny towarów handlowych w stosunku do niehandlowych i podwyższenie poziomu dobrobytu rdzennej ludności w kraju przyjmującym.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Immigration; Economic immigration; Temporary workers

PL

Imigracja; Imigracja zarobkowa; Pracownicy tymczasowi

• Czasopismo: Bank i Kredyt
• Rocznik: 2009
• Numer: nr 5
• Strony: 49--59

Twórcy

autor

Slobodan Djajić

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