The Impact of Migration Policy on Migrants’ Education Structure: Evidence from Austrian Policy Reform

• Authors: Peter Huber , Julia Bock-Schappelwein
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

We ask how reform of migration law intended to increase the selectivity of migration (the so-called integration agreement regulation in 2003) in Austria impacted on the education structure of migrants to Austria. To identify the effects of this reform, we use the fact that it applied only to migrants from third countries and not those from EEA-countries.We find no compelling evidence that this regulation improved the education structure of migrants to Austria. Our interpretation of this is that the implicit positive impact of the reforms on the education structure of migrants was countervailed by the increased restrictiveness of the migration regime overall, or that other developments in the migration regime were more important for changes in education structure in the time period considered.

Keywords

EN

Migration Policy; Self-Selection; European Economic Area

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: DANUBE: Law and Economics Review
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 1-21

Dates

published

2013-03-01

online

2013-04-12

Contributors

author

Peter Huber

• Austrian Institute for Economic Research (WIFO), Arsenal, Objekt 20, 1030 Wien, Austria
• Mendel University Brno, Faculty of Business and Economics, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic

author

Julia Bock-Schappelwein

• Austrian Institute for Economic Research (WIFO), Arsenal, Objekt 20, 1030 Wien, Austria

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/danb-2013-0001