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Migration, social standards and replacement incomes : how to protect low-income workers in the industrialized countries against the forces of globalization and market integration

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dc.creator Sinn, Hans-Werner
dc.date 2004
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:01:53Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:01:53Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18903
dc.identifier ppn:39572404X
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18903
dc.description This paper discusses how an industrialized country could defend the wages and social benefits of its unskilled workers against wage competition from immigrants. It shows that fixing social standards harms the workers and that fixing social replacement incomes implies migration into unemployment. Defending wages with replacement incomes brings about first-order efficiency losses that outweigh the budget cost to the government. By contrast, wage subsidies involve much smaller welfare losses. While the exclusion of migrants from a national replacement program does not improve the situation, the (temporary) exclusion of migrants from a national subsidy program makes it possible to avoid a distortion of the migration pattern.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher
dc.relation CESifo working papers 1265
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject I38
dc.subject F22
dc.subject J61
dc.subject H5
dc.subject F15
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject migration
dc.subject unemployment
dc.subject welfare
dc.subject Standortwettbewerb
dc.subject Sozialstaat
dc.subject Internationale Sozialstandards
dc.subject Internationale Arbeitsmobilität
dc.subject Theorie
dc.subject Industriestaaten
dc.title Migration, social standards and replacement incomes : how to protect low-income workers in the industrialized countries against the forces of globalization and market integration
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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