International Conference on Eurasian Economies
11-13 June 2019 – Famagusta, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
Paper properties
Paper ID : 2340
Status : Paper published
Language : Turkish
Topic : Macroeconomics
Presenter: Prof. Dr. Selahattin Sarı
Session : 4B Büyüme
The Relationship Between Unemployment and Immigration: The Case of OECD Countries (2008-2018)
İşsizlik ve Göç Arasındaki İlişki: OECD Ülkeleri Uygulaması (2008-2018)
- Prof. Dr. Selahattin Sarı (Doğuş University, Türkiye)
- Prof. Dr. Ahmet Ay (Selçuk University, Türkiye)
- Ph.D. candidate Melike Köksal (Selçuk University, Türkiye)
Abstract
In the broadest sense, immigration is defined as the change of places where people live, and it becomes a more complicated phenomenon when analyzed from the socio-economic, political and psychological aspects. The extent of the impact of migration in this context varies according to the conditions of each country, but it is also related to the number of migrants received and the many personal characteristics of immigrants, such as age, education level. Therefore, there is no unanimity on the subject in the literature. The total number of settled migrations of the 25 OECD countries in the last 10 years has been used. The effects of the migrants employed in the labor markets (registered) on the unemployment rates of the selected countries were investigated. The study period was selected as 2008-2018 years. The data was obtained from the OECD and World Bank databases. In this context, panel causality analysis was applied to investigate the short-term effects of the employed migrants on the unemployment rates of the selected countries. As a result of the analysis, in the short-term, no double or one-way relationship between unemployment and immigration was found. However, in the long run, the cointegration relationship between the variables was determined and the panel cointegration analysis revealed that long-term migration would affect unemployment in the same direction. So, according to the results of the analysis; for the countries examined, there is a long-term and similar relationship between unemployment and settled migrants who participate in labor force in the selected period.
JEL codes: J61, J64, C33
Sarı, Selahattin, Ay, Ahmet, Köksal, Melike (2019). "The Relationship Between Unemployment and Immigration: The Case of OECD Countries (2008-2018)" in Proceedings of International Conference of Eurasian Economies 2019, pp.204-211, Famagusta, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36880/C11.02340
