Wednesday 27th Jan 2010

IMMIGRATION TO THE UK: ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE by

Prof Christian Dustmann

Christian Dustmann is Professor at the Centre for Research and Analysis of

Migration (CReAM), University College, London.

Migration and Economic Research

2. The Non-Migrant Experience

1. Forms of Migration

Movement

3. The Migrant Experience

4. Ethnicity, Identity and Attitudes

Temporary vs Permanent Migration

Migrant’s Labour Market Performance

Effect of Immigration on wagesRemittances

Forms of Migration

PermanentMigration

TemporaryMigration

Return Migration

Contract Migration

Transient Migration

Circulatory Migration

Economic Motives

Natural disaster orpersecutionLegal or

illegal

Most European countries are now immigration countries...

• Austria 14.1 • United Kingdom 9.1 • Belgium 12.1 • France 10.7 • Germany12 3• Greece 8.8 • Sweden 12.4 • Switzerland 22.9 • Spain 12.0 • Australia 24.3 • New Zealand 15.9 • Canada 18. 9 • United States of America 12.9

Source: Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, Trends in Total Migrant Stock International Migration Outlook: SOPEMI -2008 Edition -OECD © 2008

Migration creates Surplus Migration creates Re-distribution

Policy: Maximise Surplus Minimise distributional Consequences Minimise Social Conflict

Migrants

Population receiving country

Population sending country

Higher return to skillsEfficiency GainBrain gain

Population receiving country

Population sending country

Changes in skill returnChanges in skill returnsRemittancesBrain Gain

Migration creates social conflict

The Migrant Experience

The secondgeneration

The Immigrant:first generation

The Family:first generation

Household Interaction

Interethnic Marriage

Economic Disadvantageon Household Level

Labour Market Performance

Language acquisition

Discrimination

Self-Employment

IntergenerationalMobility

Educational Success

labour Market Performance

Language Proficiency

Some Key areas for future research are:

1. Understanding the different mechanisms that generate immigration surplus.

2. Understanding how migration relates to competitiveness,

national education systems, and trade in a globalised world.

Conclusions and Outlook