Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/316771 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 17816
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
The immigrant population increased by 32 million in 37 European countries from 1990-2019. Much of this movement was internal, from east to west Europe. Although both the destination and origin countries could be affected, we find no effects on aggregate subjective well-being in either group, using country-panel and instrumental variable techniques. Immigrants, in contrast, experienced increased well-being, converted to monetary terms, in excess of £25,000 per person. We offer more comprehensive evidence than previous studies, in terms of country and period, and by assessing the impacts on subjective well-being, which captures all of the important factors affected by immigration.
Subjects: 
life satisfaction
migrants
emigration
immigration
subjective well-being
Europe
JEL: 
I31
J15
F22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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