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Immigration Follows Jobs (USA, Europe and Dubai)

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Channel: Orange County Real Estate: Patrick Schwerdtfeger · 2014 · People & Blogs

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When an economy starts booming, immigration is soon to follow. They're looking for work. They're looking for opportunity. So when the USA and Europe had booming economies between 1982 and 2003, they had lots of immigration at the same time. Actually, immigration is a "lagging indicator" because it takes a few years for people to realize that more jobs exist elsewhere, so the immigration came from approximately 1985 or 1986 up to 2008 or 2009. After that, since the US economy is still growing, it still has immigration although it has already slowed. And in Europe where their economy is really struggling, immigration has dropped off significantly, especially in the southern Mediterranean countries like Greece, Italy and Spain. And today with Dubai and Abu Dhabi booming, we see huge immigration to those areas, coming mostly from India, Pakistan and North Africa. Immigration follows jobs. So if you see a country with a growing healthy economy, you can expect immigration to be rising at the same time.

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