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| Titre : | Disagreement over the immigration of low-income earners in a welfare state. (2006) |
| Auteurs : | Yuji Tamura |
| Type de document : | Article : texte imprimé |
| Dans : | Journal of Population Economics (vol. 19 - n° 4, October 2006) |
| Article en page(s) : | pp. 691-702 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Catégories : |
Thésaurus CEREQ MIGRATION ; POLITIQUE SOCIALE ; MODELISATION ; ROYAUME UNI |
| Résumé : | 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, 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 preferable level of immigration, although it causes disagreement among natives. We find, 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. |
| Document Céreq : | Non |
