2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Research on International Labor Movement-Can immigrants increase in the growth rate of the host country?-

Research Project

Project/Area Number	19730149
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Economic theory
Research Institution	Kansai University
Principal Investigator	DOI Junko Kansai University, 経済学部, 准教授 (00367947)
Project Period (FY)	2007 – 2009
Keywords	外国人労働 / 移民 / 経済成長
Research Abstract	The purpose of this research is to analyze how immigration affects the host country. Especially, we focus on the case where immigrants do not immediately assimilate in the host country, and consider the growth rate and immigration conflicts in OLG models. Firstly, we show that immigrants can increase in the growth rate of the host country depending on the production function. Second, we find that immigration leads to skill conflicts, intergenerational conflicts and distributional conflicts.