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Migrants and refugees are good for economies: Analysis of thirty years of data from Western Europe refutes suggestions that asylum seekers pose a financial burden
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Interesting, thanks for posting this. Sadly I think anti immigration sentiment ignores economics for the most part. Still, one can hope.
I'd have liked to see the breakdown by immigrant origin. It'd be interesting to see which country produces the most valuable immigrants so to speak. It's probably reasonably difficult to do that though.
I believe you're only interested in the statistics, but assigning economic value to human worth is questionable at best. I'm not accusing you of doing this, but felt it was worth saying.
There's no link to the actual analysis, unless I'm missing something. I also feel like the article is misrepresting some parts:
Yes, you are missing something. References are at the bottom of the article and is footnoted in the article.
Ah, I stopped scrolling when I got to the newsletter footer, as that usually is the part where they just start listing comments and other articles. Thanks!
You are missing something because there is a link to the study in the article. Here it is copied from the bottom of the article: http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/6/eaaq0883
The past 30 years have in fact included many waves of hundreds of thousands of migrants in Western Europe. That is a consequence of the Schengen area and the end of the Cold War, in addition to numerous world conflicts.
In what way does the article "misrepresent" war refugees? It is speaking to their economic impact, not vague accusations that they are culturally incompatible. How could the article misrepresent that when it's not the topic of the article at all?
From the article:
Because these aren't a long-term gain to the economy, since they leave after a while. I can acknowledge the positives to the economy apply to migrants that come to work here and plan to stay here, though.
You are correct that the article is only about economics, and not about other aspects of refugees, so I stepped out of context there.
If someone comes and works in a country for a time, their contribution to the economy doesn't disappear after they leave. I'm really not sure what you're getting at.