Immigration, Unemployment and Growth: Empirical Evidence from Greece

Michael Chletsos and Stelios Roupakias

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: Abstract: This paper applies cointegration analysis and Granger non-causality tests in order to identify the direction of causality between migration in Greece and two macroeconomic variables: GDP and unemployment. We use annual data for the 1980-2011 period. The data are drawn from the International Migration Statistics (OECD) and the International Monetary Fund Database (IMF). Our results provide empirical evidence that the growth rates of GDP and unemployment cause migration in Granger’s sense. On the contrary, evidence of reverse causality is not established.

Keywords: Immigration; Unemployment; Growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 J61 O10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-06-05
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-fdg, nep-mac and nep-mig
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (4)

Downloads: (external link)
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/39861/1/MPRA_paper_39861.pdf original version (application/pdf)
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/39927/1/MPRA_paper_39927.pdf revised version (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pra:mprapa:39861

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany Ludwigstraße 33, D-80539 Munich, Germany. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Joachim Winter ().