Immigration Policy in Small Countries: The Cases of Singapore and the Netherlands
Immigration Policy in Small Countries: The Cases of Singapore and the Netherlands
This chapter examines whether increases in trade openness, firm mobility, and productivity lead to immigration restrictions, and not the other way around, by tracing the evolution of immigration policy in two small economies after World War II: Singapore and the Netherlands. In addition to addressing the reverse causality problem, the chapter considers how other states' actions affect the ability of Singaporean and Dutch firms to compete in the export markets. It shows that firms in Singapore and the Netherlands have been affected by changes that policymakers have had little control over, such as the rise of China and the entrance of Eastern European states into the European Union. These changes have led to decreasing support for open immigration.
Keywords: trade openness, firm mobility, productivity, immigration restrictions, immigration policy, Singapore, Netherlands, firms, export markets, open immigration
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