The Economist house-price index

From: http://infographics.economist.com/2013/hpi_aug2013/?n=21540328&w=595

Slate - Immigrants Don’t Drain Public Coffers After All

From:http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_world_/2013/08/28/oecd_study_immigrants_have_small_but_positive_fiscal_effect.html

By Joshua Keating
Posted Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013, at 5:17 PM

One major argument used by opponents of looser immigration laws is that immigrants—particularly low-skilled workers—will impose a fiscal burden on their new countries, taking advantage of rich countries’ generous welfare states while contributing little in taxes.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s 2013 International Migration Outlook (via Michael Clemens) takes an in depth look at the fiscal impact of immigration on the 34 OECD member countries, finding “an overall fiscal impact in terms of GDP that is positive but small”:

Depending on the assumptions made and the methodology used, estimates of the fiscal impact of immigration vary, although in most countries it tends to be very small in terms of GDP and is around zero on average across the OECD countries considered. The impact, whether positive or negative, rarely exceeds 0.5% of GDP in a given year. 

The following chart shows the net fiscal position of immigrant households in these countries, meaning their taxes and social security contributions minus the social transfers they receive:

For the countries where the contribution is negative, the reports suggests this is because their “immigrant populations are relatively old and thus overrepresented among the population receiving pensions.” In the case of Ireland, the negative contribution applies to both immigrant and native-born households following the country’s economic crisis.

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OECD - Migration policy and migration statistics: country notes

From: http://www.oecd.org/els/mig/imo2013countrynotes.htm

Find in these 2-page notes the most recent changes in migration movements and policies as published in the 2013 edition of theInternational Migration Outlook .

Australia	France	‌ Lithuania	Slovak_Republic
Austria	Germany	Luxembourg	Slovenia
Belgium	Greece	Mexico	Spain
‌ Bulgaria	Hungary	Netherlands	Sweden
Canada	Ireland	New_Zealand	Switzerland
Chile	Israel	Norway	Turkey
Czech_Republic	Italy	Poland	United_Kingdom
Denmark	Japan	Portugal	United_States
Estonia	Korea	‌‌ Romania
Finland	Latvia	Russian_Federation

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International Migration Outlook 2013

Eurostat - Sweden second highest increase in asylum applicants

From: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS-QA-13-009/EN/KS-QA-13-009-EN.PDF

Germany reported by far the highest increase in asylum applicants in Q1 2013,
more than 6 000 compared to Q1 2012

* EU27 aggregate excluding RO; data for Romania are not available for Q1 2013
Source: Eurostat (online data code migr_asyappctzm)