TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Pouliakas, Konstantinos
AU  - Roberts, Deborah
AU  - Balamou, Eudokia
AU  - Psaltopoulos, Demetrios
        TI  - Modelling the Effects of Immigration on Regional Economic Performance and the Wage Distribution: A CGE Analysis of Three EU Regions
        PY  - 2009/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 4648
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp4648
        AB  - The paper uses a regional Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model to analyse the effects of immigration on three small remote EU regions located within Scotland, Greece and Latvia. Two migration scenarios are assessed. In the first, total labour supply is affected. In the second, the importance of migratory flows by differential labour skill types is investigated. The results indicate significant differences in the extent to which regional economies are affected by immigration. They also suggest that remote regions are highly vulnerable to the out-migration of skilled workers ('brain-drain') while the in-migration of unskilled workers leads to widening wage inequality.
        KW  - regional economies
KW  - brain-drain
KW  - immigration
KW  - CGE
KW  - skills
KW  - wage inequality
        ER  -