Labor Market Challenges in Europe With Respect to the Migrant Crisis

Authors

Thomas M. Segerstrom, Gettysburg CollegeFollow

Class Year

2017

Document Type

Student Research Paper

Date of Creation

Spring 2016

Department 1

Center for Global Education

Abstract

Advocates and opponents of European refugee policy have disagreed often over the economic impact of new asylum seekers. This paper analyzes characteristic qualities of the European labor market and how they relate to the recent changes in migration from the Middle East and Africa. Within is analysis of the impacts to gross domestic product, unemployment, and the welfare state that the arrival of additional persons to the low-wage market will bring. The paper also argues that a plan to distribute asylum seekers across the European Union is an equitable solution to the issue.

Comments

Written during off-campus studies with the Global Economics Program, DIS Copenhagen.

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.

Recommended Citation

Segerstrom, Thomas M., "Labor Market Challenges in Europe With Respect to the Migrant Crisis" (2016). Student Publications. 494.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/student_scholarship/494