The Impact Of Refugees On The Host Countries Economy:A Long Term Analysis

The paper titled "The impact of refugees on the host countries economy:a long term analysis" focused on investigating the long term economic impact of refugee on the host country.Thus the immigration of-refugees across borders has presented conflicting economic outcomes.Some studies support the economic significance of hosting refugees and other do not,but consider refugees as an economic burden.Henceforth the difference in conclusion presented a gap in literature.As such the paper analysed the nexus by focusing on the impact of an increase in refugees on the host country' s economic growth and unemployment rate.As an innovation the paper considered both time series and panel data,and focused on countries from different continents to give a proper comparison.Following the ordinary least square model,the paper discovered that among continents the impact differed between countries,with some winners and losers.Additionally the pane regression results revealed that among the continents,the European region is benefiting more from hosting refugees.Differently the robustness test confirmed the significance of refugees on the host countries economic growth.Also the robustness test results also confirms the already prevailing understanding that in countries with higher integration level,refugees contributes positively to economic growth.In all the estimated results goes in line with the immigration theory that an increase in refugees have a robust effect on the host country economic growth.The paper recommends countries increase resettlement policies and integration laws to foster the full integration.