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Asylum seekers and economic growth in 15 European nations 1985-2014

Kouthoofd Mårtensson, Marcus LU (2019) NEKH02 20191
Department of Economics
Abstract (Swedish)
This paper investigates the impact of hosting refugees on long-run economic growth for 15 European nations between 1985-2014. It does so by implementing asylum- applications as a proxy for refugee flows and introducing the variable to the augmented Solow-Swan model. A dynamic panel model is then estimated using OLS, Fixed Effects and Generalised Methods of Moments (GMM) estimation methods. These models fail to prove a significant relationship between hosting refugees and economic growth. However, net migration is found to have a positive impact on GDP per capita. These results high- light the importance of well-crafted migration policies, particularly against the backdrop of increasing flows.
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author
Kouthoofd Mårtensson, Marcus LU
supervisor
organization
course
NEKH02 20191
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Asylum-seekers, Economic growth, Augmented Solow-Swan model, Panel data analysis
language
English
id
8988808
date added to LUP
2019-08-08 11:31:18
date last changed
2019-08-08 11:31:18
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  abstract     = {{This paper investigates the impact of hosting refugees on long-run economic growth for 15 European nations between 1985-2014. It does so by implementing asylum- applications as a proxy for refugee flows and introducing the variable to the augmented Solow-Swan model. A dynamic panel model is then estimated using OLS, Fixed Effects and Generalised Methods of Moments (GMM) estimation methods. These models fail to prove a significant relationship between hosting refugees and economic growth. However, net migration is found to have a positive impact on GDP per capita. These results high- light the importance of well-crafted migration policies, particularly against the backdrop of increasing flows.}},
  author       = {{Kouthoofd Mårtensson, Marcus}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Asylum seekers and economic growth in 15 European nations 1985-2014}},
  year         = {{2019}},
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