Swedish Academic Rejects Alleged Economic Benefits of Mass Migration
Swedish Academic Rejects Alleged Economic Benefits of Mass Migration 22 Dec 2020 Swedish Professor of Economics Mats Hammarstedt has rejected claims that mass migration can be economically beneficial over the long term, citing problems of integration. Professor Hammarstedt, who teaches at the Linnaeus University in Växjö and the Institute for Business Research, said that integration failures, particularly of asylum seekers, have contributed to a much higher unemployment rate among migrants over the long-term. In an article for the Swedish publication Dagens Industri, Hammarstedt said: “...