Question

Determine whether each statement is TRUE/FALSE or UNCERTAIN

Refugees of the Syrian Civil War are citizens and permanent residents of Syria, who have fled their country over the course of the Syrian Civil War. Since the start of the Syrian Civil War in 2011, millions of refugees had crossed into other countries with most seeking asylum in Turkey, Lebanon, Europe and elsewhere. According to the theoretical models of immigration studied in this unit, one can unambiguously predict that employment conditions of the native workforce in any of these countries in terms of employment and wage levels in equilibrium will be adversely affected and reduced.

Answer 1

The given statement is true.

With the increase in immigration in various countries, they get access to labour market and employment opportunities of the native countries. So the supply of the labour in the native countries will increase.

This leads to reduction in the employment opportunities for the native workforce of these countries where the number of immigrants increase.

The increase in supply of labour, the wage level of these labour markets will also come down.