The Library
Has Eastern European migration impacted UK-born workers?
Tools
Becker, Sascha O. and Fetzer, Thiemo (2018) Has Eastern European migration impacted UK-born workers? Working Paper. Coventry, UK: University of Warwick. Department of Economics. Warwick economics research papers series (WERPS) (1165). (Unpublished)
|
PDF
WRAP-Eastern-European-migration-impacted-UK-born-workers-Becker-2018.pdf - Other - Requires a PDF viewer. Download (3777Kb) | Preview |
Official URL: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/w...
Abstract
The 2004 accession of 8 Eastern European countries to the European Union (EU) was accompanied by fears of mass migration. The United Kingdom - unlike many other EU countries - did not opt for temporary restrictions on the EU’s free movement of labour. We document that following EU accession more than 1 million people (ca. 3% of the UK working age population) migrated from Eastern Europe to the UK. We show that they mostly settled in places that had limited prior exposure to immigration. We provide evidence that these areas subsequently saw smaller wage growth at the lower end of the wage distribution and increased pressure on the welfare state, housing and public services. Using novel geographically disaggregated data by country-of-origin, we measure the effects of Eastern European migration on these outcomes for the UK-born and different groups of immigrants. Our results are important in the context of the UK’s Brexit referendum and the ongoing EU withdrawal negotiations in which migration features as a key issue.
Item Type: | Working or Discussion Paper (Working Paper) | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor |
||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects, Foreign workers -- Great Britain, Labor supply -- Great Britain, Europe, Eastern -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects, Voting research -- Great Britain, European Union countries -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects | ||||
Series Name: | Warwick economics research papers series (WERPS) | ||||
Publisher: | University of Warwick. Department of Economics | ||||
Place of Publication: | Coventry, UK | ||||
ISSN: | 0083-7350 | ||||
Official Date: | June 2018 | ||||
Dates: |
|
||||
Number: | 1165 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 17 | ||||
Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
Description: | This paper also appears as CAGE discussion paper 376 |
Request changes or add full text files to a record
Repository staff actions (login required)
View Item |
Downloads
Downloads per month over past year