Publicação
A wave of change: labor market and social security impacts of the EU refugee inflow
| datacite.subject.fos | Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão | pt_PT |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Batista, Cátia | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mascarenhas, Rui Duarte | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-02-19T15:25:48Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-02-19T15:25:48Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The recent massive inflow of refugees to the European Union (EU) raises a number of unanswered questions on the economic impact of this phenomenon. To examine these questions, we constructed an overlapping-generations model that describes the evolution of the skill premium and of the welfare benefit level in relevant European countries, in the aftermath of an inflow of asylum-seekers. In our simulation, relative wages of skilled workers increase between 8% and 11% in the period of the inflow; their subsequent time path is dependent on the initial skill premium. The entry of migrants creates a fiscal surplus of about 8%, which can finance higher welfare benefits in the subsequent periods. These effects are weaker in a scenario where refugees do not fully integrate into the labor market. | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.tid | 201524724 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10362/16501 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Skill premium | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Welfare benefits | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Refugees | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | European union | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | International migration | pt_PT |
| dc.title | A wave of change: labor market and social security impacts of the EU refugee inflow | pt_PT |
| dc.type | master thesis | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt_PT |
| rcaap.type | masterThesis | pt_PT |
| thesis.degree.name | A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Economics from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics | pt_PT |