Η συμβολή των μεταναστών στην ελληνική οικονομία: Mετά-ανάλυση των εμπειρικών ευρημάτων

Abstract

This study synthesizes the findings of the empirical literature available by means of meta-analyses of the impact of immigration on the Greek economy in order to detect whether consensus conclusions are emerging and whether differences in results across studies can be explained. For this purpose, the study recodes the contribution of migrants to the Greek economy and the labour market resulting from the available studies as benefiting or harming the Greek economy and native born, and estimates alternative probit and order probit models to assess the relationship between this observed impact and key study characteristics such as methodology, period of investigation, survey design, publication year etc. Even if the sample of studies available to generate comparable effect sizes remains severely limited by the heterogeneity in different approaches, the study shows that the contribution of immigrants in terms of economic growth, wages and employment is clearly positive, although rather relatively small.