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Abstract
In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call 'the wider effects of migration' on the production and consumption sides of the economy – and the role of high-skilled migrants in these processes. This paper surveys the emerging 'wider impacts' literature, including studies from the US, European and other countries. It sets out some simple, non-technical frameworks, discusses the empirical findings and identifies avenues for future research.

JEL codes

G23; G24; J15; J61; L5; L26; M12; M13; O31; O32; R11

The UK has never accepted that cities are at the heart of its economy, society and civilisation. Rather, our cities have been something that we prefer to despair about or simply ignore. For successive governments, cities have been seen as the root of the UK's political and economic problems high unemployment, low productivity, crime and social exclusion. We have the world's fourth largest economy and one of the lowest unemployment rates in the developed world, but there are still people and neighbourhoods who are increasingly dislocated from the country's overall prosperity. joblessness and urban deprivation remains a major problem in many of the UK's cities. In these places poor health, education, housing and transport go hand in hand with high unemployment, crime and dereliction. Jobs and businesses are often in short supply. If Britain is to capitalise on nine years of steady growth, it must ensure that our cities, notably those outside London, can reproduce the capital's economic and social vitality. And there are signs of life ...