Liberalization of European migration and the immigration of skilled people to Sweden.

Autor/inn/en	Ejermo, Olof; Zheng, Yannu
Titel	Liberalization of European migration and the immigration of skilled people to Sweden. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Liberalisierung der europäischen Migration und die Einwanderung von Fachkräften nach Schweden.
Quelle	In: IZA Journal of development and migration, 8 (2018) 5, 25 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2520-1786
DOI	10.1186/s40176-017-0111-5
Schlagwörter	Erfindung; Qualifikationsstruktur; Fachkraft; Auswirkung; Innovationsfähigkeit; Liberalisierung; Europäische Union; Hoch Qualifizierter; Belgien; Deutschland; Dänemark; Finnland; Frankreich; Griechenland; Großbritannien; Herkunftsland; Irland; Italien; Luxemburg; Niederlande; Portugal; Schweden; Spanien; Österreich
Abstract	"Migration policies can have a strong impact on the selection of immigrants, who in turn can affect the host country's innovation development. This paper examines the effects of the liberalization of migration on the skill composition of immigrants from the EU-15 to Sweden after the inception of the European Economic Area (EEA) in 1994. We examine its effect on immigrants' education levels and probability of becoming an inventor, comparing immigrants from the EU-15 with those from other developed regions in difference-in-differences regressions. The results show that the liberalization of migration had a negative effect on the educational profile of new EU-15 immigrants in the short run, but there is no such effect in the long run. Moreover, the liberalization of migration has no systematic effect on the EU-15 immigrants' probability of becoming an inventor in neither the short nor the long run. These patterns are consistent with the theoretical implication that reduction in migration costs associated with the EEA mainly stimulated migration from the lower end of the education distribution." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2018/3