TY - JOUR
T1 - Theorising the effects of EU emigration for origin countries: win-win, dependency or agency?
AU - Roos, Christof
AU - Nagel, Max
AU - Seeliger, Martin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2024/7/15
Y1 - 2024/7/15
N2 - Theory on East-West migration and EU freedom of movement reveals a bias towards accounts from neoclassical economics predicting a win-win for destination and origin countries of migrants. To counter the bias, we juxtapose the neoclassical perspective with the dependency school and the state capacity literature. Empirically, we find that benefits of migration occur regarding the effects of remittances yet not for expectations on return and demography as well as GDP development and growth. The two alternative accounts explain better how emigration may aggravate a country's peripheral position in the EU or how countries manage to reverse and limit outmigration.
AB - Theory on East-West migration and EU freedom of movement reveals a bias towards accounts from neoclassical economics predicting a win-win for destination and origin countries of migrants. To counter the bias, we juxtapose the neoclassical perspective with the dependency school and the state capacity literature. Empirically, we find that benefits of migration occur regarding the effects of remittances yet not for expectations on return and demography as well as GDP development and growth. The two alternative accounts explain better how emigration may aggravate a country's peripheral position in the EU or how countries manage to reverse and limit outmigration.
UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/21599165.2024.2377097
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85198562940&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/21599165.2024.2377097
DO - 10.1080/21599165.2024.2377097
M3 - Article
VL - 40
SP - 728
EP - 747
JO - East European Politics
JF - East European Politics
SN - 2159-9165
IS - 4
ER -