Effects of Migration in Countries of Destination

In this video, we will specifically examine the effects of international migration in destination, or host, countries. Migration effects are observed at different levels of society and under a variety of circumstances. While this video is not meant to be a complete list of every effect host countries or locations will experience, it will summarize some of the most commonly discussed and researched outcomes. In general, there are effects that individual immigrants or groups of migrants experience themselves in the destination country. There are also effects of migration on the communities where migrants live. Finally, there are macro-level effects felt at the country or regional level.

Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:32 Where We See Effects
1:10 Mechanisms
2:08 Micro Effects
4:44 Meso Effects
5:57 Macro Effects
7:38 Refugee Hosting
8:37 Conclusion

*Thank you to Kevin O'Dell for help with this video

Selected Studies:
Fargues, P., 2017. International Migration and Education. A Web of Mutual Causation. Global Education Monitoring Report. UNESCO.
Harris, R., 2015. The Mariel Boatlift- A Natural Experiment in Low-Skilled Immigration and Innovation. Presented at the DRUID Academy, Bordeaux.
Hunt, Jennifer, and Marjolaine Gauthier-Loiselle. 2010. "How Much Does Immigration Boost Innovation?" American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2 (2): 31-56.

Further Reading:
Borjas, G.J., 2008. Labor Outflows and Labor Inflows in Puerto Rico. J. Hum. Cap. 2, 32–68.
Batalova, J., Fix, M., Bachmeier, J.D., 2016. Untapped Talent: The Costs of Brain Waste among Highly Skilled Immigrants in the United States. Migration Policy Institute, New American Economy, and World Education Services., Washington, DC.
Bercovitz, J., Martens, A., Savage, J., 2013. Human Mobility and Returnee Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Mexico. Presented at the Paper to be presented at the 35th DRUID Celebration Conference, Barcelona.
Borjas, G.J., 2017. The Wage Impact of the Marielitos: A Reappraisal. ILR Rev. 70, 1077–1110. Bouton, L., Paul, S., Tiongson, E.R., 2011. The Impact of Emigration on Source Country Wages: Evidence from the Republic of Moldova (No. Policy Research Working Paper 5764). The World Bank.
Loayza, N., Ulyssea, G., Utsumi, T., 2018. Informality and the Labor Market Effects of Mass Migration: Theory and Evidence from Syrian Refugees in Turkey.

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[dendradwar]

Re impact on wages: Is there a differential impact on wages depending on skill level i.e. unskilled labour can and will drive down wages where as skilled labour moving into a job market with vacancies has little to no effect?

Social Cohesion: Why has the Swedish PM recently declared after acknowledging integration has failed "We are living in parallel societies" .. Sweden and Denmark have now enacted some of toughest immigration laws in the EU.

Based on this how do you conclude that "Refugee hosting is not associated with a serious threat to social cohesion"?

[fernandezjanellagran]

What are problems encounter in global Migration?

[godfriedmontana]

This video gets bogged down in the many unquantifiable details which are used, in isolation from one another, to support or oppose mass economic immigration. Unfortunately, it fails to adequately describe the long-term big picture for the host population. The latter is determined by the following two basic facts: (1) Immigrants are both workers AND consumers (so you can't use them to get rid of vacancies as claimed in the UK by Tony Blair and New Labour in 2004 - they lied!). (2) In the long run immigrants or their children integrate after which they behave just like the host population. This means that the effect of immigration in the long run is to increase the population and GDP of the host country relative to what it would have been otherwise but without increasing GDP per capita. In the long run it will not increase the financial well-being of the hosts or solve structural problems in their economy caused by their economic and life-style preferences. There will be some small short term effects which may be net positive due to the initial differences between immigrants and the hosts but these will be continually eroded as immigrants integrate and can only be maintained by bringing in immigrants forever. So, while mass immigration may be fine for relatively uncrowded countries like the US which want to keep increasing their economic clout in the world, it is undesirable for relatively crowded countries like the UK (particularly England) and the Netherlands where the increased population density reduces the quality of life for the host population. Put bluntly: immigrants take up space. Without immigration the UK/NL could have solved their own problems by allowing the market economy to do its work and shift people around to where they are most needed (a lot of journalists would be more usefully employed cleaning toilets, for example, whilst a lot of potentially innovative scientists and engineers have found an easier way of making a living producing innovative new financial products to lead in the next financial crash). And although immigrants may not cause wages to fall much, they prevent them from rising where they need to rise. As for ethnic restaurants they are hardly essential (life is about choices) and we don't need millions of immigrants to have a reasonable supply of those. Finally two messages to the woke brigade: (1) using immigrants to do YOUR dirty work for a minimum wage (if they're lucky) is the modern equivalent of slavery which you're so fond of exposing. (2) since immigrants take up space using them to increase the diversity of the host population decreases the biodiversity in the natural world which the hosts use for recreation.