The European refugee crisis and the natural rate of output

Katja Heinisch and Klaus Wohlrabe

Applied Economics Letters, 2017, vol. 24, issue 16, 1138-1142

Abstract: The European Commission follows a harmonized approach for calculating structural (potential) output for EU member states that takes into account labour as an important ingredient. This article shows how the recent huge migrants’ inflow to Europe affects trend output. Due to the fact that the immigrants immediately increase the working population but effectively do not enter the labour market, we illustrate that the potential output is potentially upward biased without any corrections. Taking Germany as an example, we find that the average medium-term potential growth rate is lower if the migration flow is modelled adequately compared to results based on the unadjusted European Commission procedure.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2016.1259741

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