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Is migration good or bad for the host society? Are immigrants friends or strangers? How and how far should the freedom of movement be regulated by political rules and administrative regulations? These questions have always been asked in the history of mankind (see for example the exodus story in the second book of the Old Testament). Obviously, answers to such questions differ according to subjective, individual evaluations. What costs and benefits do we exactly focus on? Do we concentrate on the sending or the host society or on the migrants themselves? What makes it all even more difficult is the fact that most impacts of international migration are not time invariant. They depend on changing economic business cycles, the intensity of social changes and other non-economic factors. So, it is worth to look more carefully at a specific case to analyse the effects of migration and to see whether we might learn at least something about the mechanics and dynamics of migration. In what follows, I will concentrate on the impacts of immigration to the Scandinavian economies.
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Straubhaar, T. (2000). Immigration to Scandinavia: Good or Bad for the Nordic Economies?. In: Hedegaard, L., Lindström, B., Joenniemi, P., Östhol, A., Peschel, K., Stålvant, CE. (eds) The NEBI Yearbook 2000. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58337-7_4
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