2010
DOI: 10.1177/0027950110380321
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Migration, Skill Composition and Growth

Abstract: The UK, with its relatively liberal immigration policies following recent enlargements, has been one of the main recipients of migrants from new EU member states. What factors would contribute to immigration/emigration benefits/costs and economic growth driven by migration? Who are the winners and losers in both the sending and host regions? We utilize an endogenous growth two-bloc model with labour mobility of different skill compositions to address these questions. We show that migration, in general, is bene… Show more

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“…This shows that the immigrant population on average reflects quite well the native population in terms of education -not surprising the "non-western" part of the non-native population has a higher incidence of low education. Kim, Levine and Lotti (2010) show that this also holds for the EU15.…”
Section: Stylised Facts For the Netherlands 1970 -2009mentioning
confidence: 64%
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“…This shows that the immigrant population on average reflects quite well the native population in terms of education -not surprising the "non-western" part of the non-native population has a higher incidence of low education. Kim, Levine and Lotti (2010) show that this also holds for the EU15.…”
Section: Stylised Facts For the Netherlands 1970 -2009mentioning
confidence: 64%
“…Next to that there is also another mechanism which is important in case of skill neutral migration. Kim, Levine and Lotti (2010) argue that skill neutral migration enhances growth for two reasons. First since migration takes usually place from low productivity to high productivity countries, economic growth is enhanced.…”
Section: Economic Growth In An Ageing Economy and The Impact Of Immig...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Generalizing the empirical research results it is noticed that the authors define different aspects of emigration impact, however there is no one common assessment methodology for integrated emigration impact on the national economic growth assessment. Assessment of emigrant's qualification structure changes impact on the national economic growth is based on the scientific literature analysis (Docquier et al, 2007;Kinderis, 2008;Chaloff & Lemaitre, 2009;Docquier & Schiff, 2009;Bollard et al, 2010;Kim et al, 2010).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The benefits of migration are pointed out for the Visegrad group countries by the empirical research of Bilan and Strielkowski (2016). Kim et al (2010) focusing on the UK labour market recommended that migration increases the world growth rate except from the case of unskilled migration.…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%