Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/93348 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 7985
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Historical experience suggests that when a period of rising immigration is followed by a sudden slump, this can trigger a policy backlash. This has not occurred in the current recession. This paper examines three links in the chain between the slump and immigration policy. First, although immigration flows have responded to the slump, and immigrants have borne more than their share of the burden, this has done little to protect the employment of non-immigrants. Second, despite the recession for Europe as a whole, attitudes to immigration have not changed very much, and they have been influenced more by fiscal concerns than by rising unemployment. Third, while far right parties have used the recession to renew the political pressure for tougher immigration policies, governments have been constrained by the composition of immigration and by EU regulation.
Subjects: 
European immigration
recession
immigration policy
JEL: 
F22
F52
J15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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