Spillover Effects of Stricter Immigration Policies

Cristina Bratu, Matz Dahlberg (), Mattias Engdahl () and Till Nikolka
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Matz Dahlberg: IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy, Postal: Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy, P O Box 513, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden
Mattias Engdahl: IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy, Postal: Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy, P O Box 513, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden, https://www.ifau.se/sv/Om-IFAU/Medarbetare/Forskare-Utredare/Mattias-Engdahl/

No 2018:13, Working Paper Series from IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy

Abstract: We evaluate the importance of spillover effects of national migration policies by estimating the effect of stricter rules on family reunification in Denmark in 2002 on migration to neighboring countries. We reach two main conclusions. First, we show that stricter rules for reunification lead to a clear and significant increase in emigration of Danish citizens with immigrant background. Most of the emigrants left Denmark for Sweden, a neighboring country in which reunification was possible. Second, we demonstrate that a significant fraction of the individuals that came to Sweden to reunite with a partner left the country again; within two (eight) years around 20% (50%) had left, with the absolute majority leaving for Denmark. Our results indicate that potential spillover effects from national migration policies should be taken into account when forming migration policy.

Keywords: Migration Policy; family reunification; international migration; spillover effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 J12 J15 K37 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 50 pages
Date: 2018-09-28
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