Asylum seekers and economic growth in 15 European nations 1985-2014
(2019) NEKH02 20191Department 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
- 2019
- 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
@misc{8988808, 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}}, }