TY  - JOUR
A1  - Potančoková, Michaela
A1  - Stonawski, Marcin Jan
A1  - Gailey, Nicholas
T1  - Migration and demographic disparities in macro-regions of the European Union,  a view to 2060
Y1  - 2021/12/21
JF  - Demographic Research
JO  - Demographic Research
SN  - 1435-9871
SP  - 1317
EP  - 1354
DO  - 10.4054/DemRes.2021.45.44
VL  - 45
IS  - 44
UR  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol45/44/
L1  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol45/44/45-44.pdf
L2  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol45/44/45-44.pdf
L3  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol45/44/files/readme.45-44.txt
L3  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol45/44/files/demographic-research.45-44.zip
N2  - Background: Migration has become one of the most salient policy areas in the European Union. In response, the European Commission established a research team with the task of investigating a range of possible demographic futures. 

Objective: This paper explores the demographic effects of migration on eastern, southern, and western EU regions, using different scenarios to see the extent population size, working-age population, education composition, and total age dependency can be influenced. 

Methods: We use a deterministic cohort-component projection model that (a) incorporates improving levels of educational attainment in the population and (b) explicit consideration of migration between EU member states (MS) and migration between EU MS and the rest of the world. Eight stylised what-if scenarios are developed around a medium assumption projection. 

Results: Although migration can have a large effect on total and working-age population size, the EU population will continue to age and see a rise in age dependency regardless. Despite depopulation occurring in many eastern MS, the region is and should remain in a better position than the south and on par with the west in terms of age dependency. 

Conclusions: While both the south and east provide large demographic subsidies of working-age people to the EU’s west, the south is less prepared to cope with the losses due to an already older population, lower labour force participation, and lower education levels. 

Contribution: We report demographic consequences of contrasting migration scenarios for the EU-28 (now EU+UK) based on multidimensional projections by age, sex, and educational attainment. 

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