Does the global migration matter? The impact of top ten cities migration on native nationals income and employment levels

• Published in: International migration Vol. 60; no. 6; pp. 111 - 128
• Main Authors: Ji, Gang, Cheng, Xiwu, Kannaiah, Desti, Shabbir, Malik Shahzad
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01-12-2022
• Subjects: Cities; Data; Economic development; Economic structure; Employment; employment level; Employment opportunities; Immigration; Income; Indigenous peoples; Industrialization; Innovations; International migration; Job opportunities; Labor force; Labor migration; Migrants; Migration; Mobility; National income; OECD; Socioeconomic status; Workforce
• ISSN: 0020-7985; 1468-2435
• DOI: 10.1111/imig.12963

Since industrialization migration has been a continuous phenomenon, it invigorates innovations and technologies. Due to this reason, several research questions aroused that either the migration has any causal effect on employment opportunities for native people from global developed economies. Moreover, the role of migration affects the national income of the economies due to internal mobility and expansion of the cities. An instrumental variable model with a fixed effect is used to analyse the data. The study has used twenty years annual data set start from 2000 to 2019. The data have taken from World Development Indicator (WDI) and the Organization for Economic Co‐operation and Development (OECD). The results explore that employment opportunities at the individual level are affected by the presence of a foreign workforce. Moreover, migrant population pressure could be a possible reason for the decrease in available work opportunities for the native labour force. However, the national income does not get affect by the incursion of migrants from outward boundaries of the international cities. The overall findings of this study concluded that global migration matters seriously but at the individual level and particular kinds of work opportunities have stressed due to immigration, but the overall impact is subtle.