the immigration thread
the immigration thread
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- lowimpakt0
A leading scientific journal publishes an analysis of 30 years of data from Western Europe that shows claims that asylum seekers pose a financial burden are false.
- Then it goes to show that they'd be of equal benefit to the countries they left, they are fleeing countries that need decent hard working people.shapesalad
- the paper doesn't show that.lowimpakt
- I find economic rationalisation for immigration repellant.detritus
- that 30 years of data would be almost entirely based on data on Balkan refugees who integrated well into western European countriesGnash
- There are some interesting economic studies that show significantly increased immigration would lead to massive gains in world GDP.yuekit
- @detritus me too. I suspect the rationale for the paper was to provide clearer evidence to counter the economic argument against (usually non-white) migrationlowimpakt