How much do immigrants actually cost Europe's taxpayers?

Check out our advertising sponsor, The Economist, and get access to global coverage at an exclusive 35% discount at https://economist.com/moneymacro Recommended follow-up articles: 1. https://www.economist.com/leaders/202... 2. https://www.economist.com/britain/202... 3. https://www.economist.com/finance-and... If you appreciate the research, consider buying me a 'coffee' at https://ko-fi.com/moneymacro or supporting long-term for membership benefits via:   / moneymacro   WANT AN IN-DEPTH INDUSTRIAL POLICY MASTERCLASS? △ https://school.moneymacro.net/p/indus... LIKE CHATTING ECON WITH ME? △ Follow me on Twitter:   / joerischasfoort   △ Follow me on LinkedIn:   / joeri-schasfoort   △ I have a private Discord server for Senior and Chief economist Patrons / members. SOURCES: 1.    • PEDRO SÁNCHEZ, JUNTO A MAMDANI: “LA INMIGR...   2.    • "It's Gone Too Far!" – Danish PM Slams Eur...   3. https://fm.dk/media/5cnhiydz/indvandr... 4. https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd... 5. https://watermark02.silverchair.com/g... 6. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ygTM... 7. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas... 8. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1... 9. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10... 10. https://d-nb.info/1128547074/34 11. https://www.statista.com/statistics/4... 12. https://www.ft.com/content/124c1cf0-4... Timestamps: 00:00 - what does immigration really cost you? 02:04 - how do researchers calculate the cost 06:47 - who pays in, and who costs more? 13:35 - same family, different bill 17:25 - what this means for Europe Attribution: Music by Epidemic Sound: http://nebula.tv/epidemic Thank you to AP Archive for access to their archival footage. Stock footage and others clips by Getty Narrated by Dr. Joeri Schasfoort Written and researched by Dr. Joeri Schasfoort and Dr. Alejandro Iribas De La Puerta Edited by Natalia Karpacz