Unskilled migration: A burden or a boon for the welfare state?

Scandinavian Journal of Economics

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 463-479

  Razin, Assaf ^a   Sadka, Efraim ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous population; Low skilled migrants; Migration quotas; Overlapping generations; Pay as you go pension

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040807760     PISSN: 03470520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9442.00210     Document Type: Article

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