Emil O W Kirkegaard

@pseudoerasmus @JayMan471 @bswud Article writes "the evidence shows that immigrants are quite good for the countries they go to". Not so.

@KirkegaardEmil @pseudoerasmus @JayMan471 none of the evidence you've presented challenges that claim @s8mb

@bswud Yes it does. Immigrants from that area quite obviously a huge social cost, esp. for DK.

@KirkegaardEmil people with lower S than Danish can still be net socially beneficial; just less net socially beneficial

@bswud Yes, but they aren't. The balance is that S level around Danish level has a net effect ~0 (slightly negative).

@KirkegaardEmil what is that coming through? Claiming benefits? Violent crime?

.@pseudoerasmus Seems hard to study immigrant effect on wages because we have no point of comparison. @KirkegaardEmil @bswud

@JayMan471 @pseudoerasmus @KirkegaardEmil if they're truly randomly distributed then difference-in-differences seems legitimate

.@bswud The problem is you can't compare one part of the country to another part, especially in tiny country. @pseudoerasmus @KirkegaardEmil

@JayMan471 @pseudoerasmus @KirkegaardEmil don't you think it'd be a little coincidental if adjacent Danish counties coincidentally differed

.@bswud The country is one whole economy. The presence of immigrants causes people to move. It don't fly. @pseudoerasmus @KirkegaardEmil

.@bswud Immigrants -> to "positive" effect on wages could be cuz low-skill Danes move to low immigrant areas @pseudoerasmus @KirkegaardEmil

@JayMan471 @pseudoerasmus @KirkegaardEmil no, they do a great deal to ensure that's not driving their finding https://files.acrobat.com/a/preview/31bfa05e-a14d-480f-b3e1-2641bad6e67d …

@JayMan471 @pseudoerasmus @KirkegaardEmil Danish registry data allows them to follow individual workers. Your story just doesn't fit