Timeline for What is the impact of migration on sustainable developement
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| Oct 10, 2020 at 19:46 | comment | added | Italian Philosopher | Immigrants aren't automatically a boon to their host country. It depends on their skills, capacity to integrate (which comes both from the immigrants' willingness and ability to do so and the host country's openness) and employability. Most of the time, well-managed, immigration can be a boon. But there are plenty of cases in Europe where it demonstrably isn't, especially when you get persistent 2nd and 3rd generation underclasses due to host country prejudices. | |
| Oct 10, 2020 at 17:04 | comment | added | Ryan_L | @MikeScott Laborers make more products than they consume. | |
| Oct 10, 2020 at 16:59 | comment | added | Mike Scott | @Ryan_L No, it doesn’t, because merchandise doesn’t buy merchandise, but workers buy the products of labour and so increase demand as well as supply. | |
| Oct 10, 2020 at 16:30 | comment | added | Ryan_L | More workers is not a strictly good thing. Supply and demand applies to labor just as much as merchandise. | |
| Oct 10, 2020 at 15:22 | comment | added | o.m. | It is also bad for the country of origin if highly skilled, highly motivated workers leave ("brain drain"). This must be balanced against remittances and I suspect the net effect varies from country to country. | |
| Oct 10, 2020 at 15:02 | history | answered | Mike Scott | CC BY-SA 4.0 |