Bianchi, Cosimo (2022) What are the immigration effects on economic growth and income inequality among Southern European countries? Bachelor thesis, Global Responsibility & Leadership (GRL).
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Abstract
Given that immigration has been identified as a labor mobility mechanism that can help maintain a stable capital-labor ratio, thereby increasing labor productivity and regional income per capita, as well as contribute to recipient country performance and foster innovation, the goal of this research is to investigate the effects of immigration on regional economic growth and income inequality, with a focus on the economies of Southern Europe. This research has the main purpose to conduct a quantitative study to examine respectively the immigration effects on regional economic growth and income disparity, including a more in-depth analysis of the diverse impacts on the foreign-born’s skill composition in relation to the two dependent variables in analysis. Particularly, the study examined the effects of the share of foreign-born population on regional economic growth over an eight-year period (2011-2019) and the Gini Index per capita. The findings of this study revealed that the proportion of foreign-born people is linked to higher GDP growth per capita, but no evidence of a link between immigration and income disparity per capita has been found. The findings also supported a favorable relationship between high- and medium-skilled migration and economic development; however, the skill mix of immigrants did not show any correlation with regional income disparity. The findings of this study provide significant insights on economic migration consequences on a regional scale by investigating Southern Europe, a geographical area where immigration effects on regional economic growth and income distribution have gotten insufficient attention.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Name supervisor: | Papakonstantinou, M.A. |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Sep 2022 13:15 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Sep 2022 13:17 |
| URI: | https://campus-fryslan.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/153 |
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