Chapter 7 The Impact of Worker Effort on Public Sentiment Toward Temporary Migrants

Gil S. Epstein; Alessandra Venturini

doi:10.1108/S0147-9121(2011)0000033010

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Research in Labor Economics

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Chapter 7 The Impact of Worker Effort on Public Sentiment Toward Temporary Migrants

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Title:	Chapter 7 The Impact of Worker Effort on Public Sentiment Toward Temporary Migrants
Author(s):	Gil S. Epstein, Alessandra Venturini
Volume:	33 Editor(s): Solomon W. Polachek, Konstantinos Tatsiramos ISBN: 978-1-78052-332-3 eISBN: 978-1-78052-333-0
Citation:	Gil S. Epstein, Alessandra Venturini (2011), Chapter 7 The Impact of Worker Effort on Public Sentiment Toward Temporary Migrants, in Solomon W. Polachek, Konstantinos Tatsiramos (ed.) Research in Labor Economics (Research in Labor Economics, Volume 33), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.239-261
DOI:	10.1108/S0147-9121(2011)0000033010 (Permanent URL)
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Article type:	Chapter Item
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.