Wednesday, 7 November 2018

Losing it: The economics and politics of migration

a column by Ian Goldin and Benjamin Nabarro for VOX: CEPR’s Policy Portal

Anti-migration sentiment has been rising across Europe.

This column shows that the economic impact of migration is positive, but depends almost entirely on the policies implemented to ensure that migrants can be productive and the extent to which the positive economic consequences of migration are distributed across individuals.

Unless the rhetoric of a perceived cultural and economic threat posed by migrants is countered effectively, economies stand to lose out substantially from the implementation of anti-immigration policies.

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