Economic impact on the London and UK economy of an earned regularisation of irregular migrants to the UK
- Document number
- 2186
- Date
- 2009
- Title
- Economic impact on the London and UK economy of an earned regularisation of irregular migrants to the UK
- Author/publisher
- London School of Economics
- Availability
- View/save PDF version of this document
- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Migrant rights; Migration management; Comprehensive approach to migration; Migration policy; Restrictive migration measures, Irregular Migration, Feminization of migration, Economic migration, Labour migration, Free movement, Undocumented migrants; Undocumented labour;
- Summary
- This study was commissioned to provide an appraisal of the likely economic impacts, within London and across the UK as a whole, of this model of earned regularisation for irregular migrants who have been in the country for at least five years. The report includes four main sections:
• An estimate of the numbers of irregular migrants in the UK and in London and the proportion who might be eligible for regularisation;
• A discussion of the factors to take into account when designing a scheme;
• An assessment of the impacts of regularisation on social welfare through its potential effects on migrants' engagement with the labour market, the housing market, neighbourhoods and social cohesion; and
• An estimate of the fiscal impacts from increased tax revenues on the one hand and increased costs of public services and financial support on the other. - Related documents