Temporary and circular migration programs have been devised by many destination countries and supported by the European Commission as a policy to reduce welfare and social costs of immigration in destination countries. In this chapter, we present an additional reason for proposing temporary migration policies based on the characteristics of the foreign labor-effort supply. The level of effort exerted by migrants, which decreases over their duration in the host country, positively affects production, real wages, and capital owners’ profits. We show that the acceptance of job offers by migrants results in the displacement in employment of national workers. However, it increases the workers’ exertion, decreases prices, and thus can counter anti-immigrant voter sentiment. Therefore, the favorable sentiment of the capital owners and the local population toward migrants may rise when temporary migration policies are adopted.

The Impact of Woker Effort on Public Sentiment towards temporary migration

VENTURINI, Alessandra;
2011-01-01

Abstract

Temporary and circular migration programs have been devised by many destination countries and supported by the European Commission as a policy to reduce welfare and social costs of immigration in destination countries. In this chapter, we present an additional reason for proposing temporary migration policies based on the characteristics of the foreign labor-effort supply. The level of effort exerted by migrants, which decreases over their duration in the host country, positively affects production, real wages, and capital owners’ profits. We show that the acceptance of job offers by migrants results in the displacement in employment of national workers. However, it increases the workers’ exertion, decreases prices, and thus can counter anti-immigrant voter sentiment. Therefore, the favorable sentiment of the capital owners and the local population toward migrants may rise when temporary migration policies are adopted.
2011
Research in Labor Economics
Emerald Group
33
239
261
978-1-78190-357-5
Migration; exertion of effort; contracted temporary migration
A. Venturini; G. Epstein
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