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Legal and Illegal Immigration in an Efficiency Wage Model

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Kenji Kondoh ()
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In the developed countries like EU and Japan, some young native people dare to enjoy voluntary unemployment. Though they can easily find relatively low-wage job, they prefer to work part-time and look for a chance to to get high-wage job. Moreover the illegal unskilled foreign (legal skilled foreign [or domestic but from different region]) workers are complementary (substitutional) to the natives of that region and their wage is usually low (high). Reflecting this situation, we introduce two types of immigrants in an efficiency wage model (with two different job-sectors) by Shapiro and Stiglitz. The co-existence of these immigrants also permits us to analyze the importance of legality.

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Paper provided by European Regional Science Association in its series ERSA conference papers with number ersa01p133.

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  1. Carter, Thomas J., 1999. "Illegal immigration in an efficiency wage model," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 49(2), pages 385-401, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. Shapiro, Carl & Stiglitz, Joseph E, 1984. "Equilibrium Unemployment as a Worker Discipline Device," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 74(3), pages 433-44, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  3. Ethier, Wilfred J, 1986. "Illegal Immigration," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 76(2), pages 258-62, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  4. Djajic, Slobodan, 1985. "Human Capital, Minimum Wage and Unemployment: A Harris-Todaro Model of a Developed Open Economy," Economica, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 52(208), pages 491-508, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  5. Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L., 1982. "International migration, non-traded goods and economic welfare in the source country," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 11(1), pages 81-90, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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