• DOI:10.1007/S00148-007-0182-3
Corpus ID: 154625546

Welfare effects of illegal immigration

@article{Palivos2009WelfareEO,
  title={Welfare effects of illegal immigration},
  author={T. Palivos},
  journal={Journal of Population Economics},
  year={2009},
  volume={22},
  pages={131-144}
}

T. Palivos

Published 2009

Economics

Journal of Population Economics

This paper analyzes the welfare effect of illegal immigration on the host country within a dynamic general equilibrium framework and shows that it is positive for two reasons. First, immigrants are paid less than their marginal product, and second, after an increase in immigration, domestic households find it optimal to increase their holdings of capital. It is also shown that dynamic inefficiency may arise, despite the fact that the model is of the Ramsey type. Nevertheless, the introduction… CONTINUE READING

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