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Although immigration of workers generates a positive externality on members of domestic pension systems, many countries are very reluctant to allow foreigners into their labor markets. In a political economic framework, we explain this voting outcome by considering a young unskilled median voter...
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Depending on the design of the domestic pension system and the type of immigrants, voters will decide differently on immigration policy. In this paper, we investigate the voting outcome of three groups of heterogenous voters (skilled workers, unskilled workers, and retirees) under Beveridgian or...
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In der öffentlichen und politischen Debatte wird Zuwanderung als eine Möglichkeit diskutiert, das Problem der Alterung von Gesellschaften abzumildern. Gleichzeitig lassen sich zum Teil sehr starke Widerstände gegen Zuwanderung feststellen. In den letzten Jahren hat sich auch die Wissenschaft...
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Razin and Sadka (1999) show that unskilled immigration is beneficial to all income and all age groups in society, even if immigrants are net beneficiaries of the welfare system. Among other things, this result rests on the assumptions that immigrants have the same reproduction rate as the native...
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