The Effect on Immigration of Changes in Regulations and Policies

A Case Study

Bibliographic Data

ID10070636
AuthorsÅdne Cappelen (0000-0001-6335-8235, Research Department Statistics Norway), Terje Skjerpen (0000-0003-1305-9039, Research Department Statistics Norway, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume52
Issue4
Pages810-825
Publication date2013-12-19
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJCMS Journal of Common Market Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-9886 • E-ISSN: 1468-5965
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/jcms.12118
OpenAlexW2163777503
LanguageEN
References cited12

Net migration has become the main factor driving N orwegian population growth. This article explores how changes in regulations and immigration policies have affected gross immigration to N orway. As in previous econometric studies, it finds that income differences and income distribution have a bearing on immigration, as well as aspects of the labour market. Various immigration policies have largely had the expected effects, and N orway's membership of the European economic area since 1994 and inclusion in the S chengen area in 2001 have resulted in higher immigration. The enlargement of the EU in 2004 and 2007 substantially increased immigration to N orway. By 2010, the EU ‐related changes in regulations increased total immigration by some 20 per cent compared to a counterfactual situation where N orway did not become party to either of these agreements. The partial and accumulated effect on the total population in N orway in 2010 is estimated to be about 2 per cent

Counterfactual thinking · Demographic economics · Development economics · Distribution (mathematics · Economics · Immigration · Immigration policy · Income distribution · Net migration rate · Political science · Population · Population growth · Sociology · Demography · Employment and Welfare Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration

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