Thinking about Costs and Benefits of Immigration
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I find this a useful way to organise my thoughts about the costs and benefits of immigration. It may work for you too. I start out with a neutral benchmark, where immigration has neither costs nor benefits for the original population. Then I think of different ways in which that neutral benchmark could be wrong. This post is just a list (no doubt incomplete) of things that might create costs or benefits from immigration. I make no attempt to say which is bigger. It depends. I am writing this mostly for non-economists. I should warn you that the economics of migration is not my area. I’m a macroeconomist, and most economists who specialise in immigration are microeconomists. This may give me a different perspective. In case you think it matters: I migrated to Canada from the UK 40 (...)