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Economics of Migration

Contact Email: h.andrew@ippr.org

Introduction

Understanding the economic drivers and impacts of migration

Economic impacts are often high on the agendas of migration policy makers, but understanding the economics of migration has been one of the most difficult challenges in migration studies.

Our research in this area aims to shape thinking around how we understand the economic impacts of migration, provide new evidence about the extent and nature of those impacts in the UK, and provide new insights as to how policy might best address migration to maximise economic benefit.  We hope that this work will contribute to a better-informed public debate and a more prepared policy community, better able to evaluate migration’s economic contributions, and to manage them to the benefit of all.

We are grateful to the funders of the Economics of Migration project: Business for New Europe, the Commission for Rural Communities, the Trades Union Congress and the UK Border Agency (Home Office).

Publications

• Migration and Rural Economies: Assessing and addressing risks
• Social Networks and Polish Immigration to the UK 
• Irregular Migration in the UK: An ippr update 
• Migration: a long-run perspective
• Migrant Worker Availability in the East of England: An economic risk assessment
• The Economic Impacts of Migration on the UK Labour Market
• Building a New Home: Migration in the UK construction sector
• Your Place or Mine? The local economics of migration
• Floodgates or turnstiles? Post-EU enlargement migration flows to (and from) the UK

Comment and Media

• Tougher immigration controls are having a negative impact on the high skilled migrants our economy needs
• EU Migration is working
• Ippr comments on latest migration figures
• Tighter immigration controls could enable an amnesty for illegal immigrants say ippr
• Why low migration levels threaten the UK's economic and social health
• Migrant impact on UK jobs and wages not harmful, says study
• ippr reaction to today's announcement to enforce stricter work rules on migrants
• ippr warns the UK government not to resort to protect jobs in this country for UK workers
• Borders and Migration Bill threatens the UK’s economic recovery say ippr
• Economic slowdown leading to migration slowdown says ippr
• UK employers should make the most of diversity dividend, says ippr
• Half of migrants from new EU countries have now left UK

Previous work

• a report on immigration and economic growth in the North East of England
• an Op-ed on the economics of UK immigration in the Guardian
• a FactFile on EU Enlargement
• a FactFile on irregular migration in the UKin March 2006
• a chapter on migration and demographic change in the ippr book,  Population Politics, published in February 2006
• a response to the Home Office consultation on managed migration in November 2005
• a report published in April 2005 on the fiscal contribution of immigrants to the UK
• a roundtable on the Scottish Executive's approach to addressing demographic challenges through attracting migrants held in December 2004
• a Labour Migration FactFile in June 2004
• an article by Mark Kleinman in a special issue of the Political Quarterly in 2003.

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