The Economic Impact of Migration: A Survey

Stephen Drinkwater (), Paul Levine (), Emanuela Lotti and Joseph Gerson Pearlman ()

No 103, Department of Economics Discussion Papers from Department of Economics, University of Surrey

Abstract: This survey reviews both theoretical and empirical papers that examine the economic effects of labour mobility with a particular reference to intra-European migration. We address three broad sets of issues: Firstly, the effect that immigration has on the host country's labour market. Although the possible adverse effects that immigration can have on the wage and employment levels of natives are typically examined,immigration may also have a role to play in raising skill levels. This leads to the second broad issue: the effect of migration of a particular skill composition on the long-term (endogenous) growth of the host country. Finally, immigration can have a major economic impact on the source country. These effects can either be positive or negative depending on the interplay between the effects of growth, remittances and the brain drain.

Keywords: migration; factor mobility; economic growth; immigration surplus (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 F43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003-01
View list of references View citations in EconPapers

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.econ.surrey.ac.uk/discussion_papers/2003/DP01-03.pdf (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: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sur:surrec:0103

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Department of Economics Discussion Papers from Department of Economics, University of Surrey
Contact information at EDIRC.
Series data maintained by Alex Mandilaras ().