Immigration, Unemployment And Growth In The Host Country: Bootstrap Panel Granger Causality Analysis On OECD Countries

This paper examines the causality relationship between immigration, unemployment and economic growth of the host country. The authors employ the bootstrap panel Granger causality testing approach of Kónya (2006) that allows testing for causality on each individual country separably by accounting for dependence across countries. Using annual data over the period 1980-2005 for 22 OECD countries, they find that, only in Portugal, unemployment negatively causes immigration, while in any country, immigration does not cause unemployment. They also find that, in France, Iceland, Norway and United Kingdom, growth positively causes immigration, while in any country, immigration does not cause growth.