Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35446 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3754
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Greece was traditionally an emigration country. However, since the early 1990s it became an immigrant destination and nowadays up to a tenth of the population are immigrants, mainly from neighbouring Balkan countries and, especially, Albania. This large scale immigration within a short time period had important social, as well as, economic consequences. The paper reviews the existing evidence and concludes that on average the economic effects of immigration were beneficial, although their distributional consequences were adverse. Greek immigration policy was haphazard and more efforts are needed in order to integrate the immigrants in the economic and social fabric of the country.
Subjects: 
Immigration
Greece
JEL: 
F22
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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