The arrival of migrants in OECD regions is not new. In 2019 alone, 5.3 million new permanent migrants settled in OECD countries, many moving from one OECD country to another. These included foreign doctors, nurses and scientists.
Lukas Kleine-Rueschkamp
Lukas Kleine-Rueschkamp is an Economist at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris. His main areas of research interest are in political economy and development, with a particular interest in political institutions and state capture in developing countries, the economic consequences of conflict and civil wars, and urbanisation in developing countries. He has a BSc in Economics from the University of Bonn. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley before gaining a Master of Philosophy in Economics and a PhD in Economics from the University of Oxford.
After the Boom? COVID-19 and European City Labour Markets
Berlin, London, Madrid and Paris are engines of productivity growth that have long been magnets for young and skilled workers. COVID-19 has brought this boom to a halt. Indeed job posting data offer an unparalleled view of how the pandemic has transformed labour markets in Europe’s four largest capitals at the start of 2021.