Date: 2015
Type: Other
Migrant and native interaction : labor market and marriage market
Migration Policy Centre, Policy Briefs, 2015/11
VENTURINI, Alessandra, VIGNOLI, Daniele, Migrant and native interaction : labor market and marriage market, Migration Policy Centre, Policy Briefs, 2015/11 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/37945
Retrieved from Cadmus, EUI Research Repository
The more we study the migration phenomenon the more we understand how deep rooted in its understanding is the sentence: countries of destination thought they had let in workers and they discovered instead that they had let in human beings. Much attention is paid to the economic effects of migrants in countries of destination. But relatively little attention is paid to extremely important socio-political and demographic effects. Migration and integration policies are, also, evaluated in economic terms: do migrants increase welfare costs; do they displace native workers; do they favor economic growth etc. European researchers have neglected many key aspects of family-related migration, lagging behind, in this respect, North American and Latin American research (e.g., Boyle 2002; Falicov 2007; Glick 2010). With this policy brief, we would like to point out the multiple effects that foreign workers can have in non-economic areas. In particular, we would like to point out that a policy designed to take care, for instance, of the elderly through foreign labor can have externalities on the marriage market. Hence, a correct evaluation of a policy needs to be more comprehensive and to look at all the implications of a given decision.
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/37945
Full-text via DOI: 10.2870/402686
ISBN: 9789290843085
ISSN: 2363-3441
External link: http://www.migrationpolicycentre.eu/
Series/Number: Migration Policy Centre; Policy Briefs; 2015/11
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The MPC is co-financed by the European University Institute and the European Union