The Economics of Immigration 2nd Edition by Cynthia Bansak

Exercise 9

Analyze Table 12.2. Choose a relatively happy country and a relatively sad country from the table. Do these happiness levels make sense to you? Why or why not? Why is measuring happiness difficult for economists? Then, using United Nations data, calculate the annual rate of change in the migrant stock from 1990 to 2019 ( https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/migration/data/index.asp). Does your happy country attract immigrants? Does your sad country deter immigrants? What other factors in each of these countries (besides happiness) are likely to affect immigrant stocks?