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Monthly Archives: March 2016
Legalisation of migrants increases income of native workers
Economists Andri Chassamboulli and Giovanni Peri have found that: “increasing deportation rates and tightening border control weakens low-skilled labor markets, increasing unemployment of native low-skilled workers. Legalization, instead, decreases the unemployment rate of low-skilled natives and increases income per native.” … Continue reading
Posted in economy, global, lump of labour fallacy, Mexico, migration, unemployment, US, wages
Tagged deportation, legalisation, migrants, unemployment, unions, wages
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Migration, housing & planning
This paper by John Burnett of the Institute of Race Relations examines the likely impact of the recent UK legislation on housing, planning and migration (Housing and Planning Bill 2015 and the Immigration Bill 2015) on the inner-city communities of … Continue reading
Posted in housing, law, migration, planning
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Recession and Migration
A couple of studies on recession and migration. D’Amuri and Peri write that: “In this paper we analyze the impact of immigrants on the type and quantity of native jobs. We use data on 15 Western European countries during the … Continue reading
Posted in economy, global, labour market, migration, remittances, unemployment, wages
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Migration and the 2008 financial crisis
This Migration Policy Institute‘s report explores the impacts of the global financial crisis that began in September 2008 on migration flows, immigration policies, remittances, and on migrants themselves. The report first takes a look at the recession’s effect on differing … Continue reading
Posted in global, labour market, migration, unemployment, welfare/NHS
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Migration and recession
A Migration Policy Institute report shows that immigrants, particularly men and youth, have been disproportionately hit by the global economic crisis that began in fall 2008 and now confront a reality of dwindling budgets for public services and immigrant integration … Continue reading
Posted in labour market, migration, unemployment, wages
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The slavery of migrant domestic workers
Dr Virginia Mantouvalou conducted an empirical study, a series of interviews with 24 migrant domestic workers who arrived in the UK on this visa. She reports the following: “Since 2012 migrant domestic workers arrive in the UK under very restrictive visa … Continue reading
Posted in EU, global, Parliament/Government reports, slavery
Tagged domestic work, migration, slavery, UK, visas
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The case of Spain
Report from Bruegel on migration to Spain. “During the first decade of the twenty-first century, Spain experienced one of the largest waves of migration in European history, relative to its population. Shortly after signing the Treaty of Adherence to join … Continue reading
Posted in economy, EU, migration, Spain
Tagged EU, eurocrisis, financial crisis, migration, Spain
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