Macroeconomic evidence suggests that asylum seekers are not a “burden” for Western European countries
Open Access
- 1 June 2018
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science Advances
- Vol. 4 (6), eaaq0883
- https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaq0883
Abstract
We use an econometric model to show that asylum seekers do not deteriorate host countries’ economic performance or fiscal balance.This publication has 35 references indexed in Scilit:
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