Fertility Rates and Skill Distribution in Razin and Sadka's Migration-Pension Model: A Note

Krieger, Tim (August 2003): Fertility Rates and Skill Distribution in Razin and Sadka's Migration-Pension Model: A Note. Münchener Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Beiträge (VWL) 2003-20

Abstract

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 population and that the immigrants' offspring has the same distribution of skills as the natives' offspring. By relaxing these assumptions, we show that the Razin and Sadka result is no longer unambiguous.

• Dokumententyp: Paper
• Keywords: fertility rates ; immigration policy ; public pensions, Fertilität ; Zuwanderungspolitik ; Rentenversicherung
• Fakultät: Volkswirtschaft ; Volkswirtschaft > Munich Discussion Papers in Economics ; Volkswirtschaft > Munich Discussion Papers in Economics > Wirtschaftspolitik
• Themengebiete: 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 300 Sozialwissenschaft, Soziologie ; 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 330 Wirtschaft
• JEL Classification: H55, J61
• Sprache: Englisch