What do economists think?
By Barcelona School of Economics
From the Barcelona School of Economics. You’ve heard the claims, now hear the evidence. Each episode takes a story from the news, and asks the BSE economists who study it what’s really going on. Hosted by Tim Phillips.
Immigration now decides elections across Europe. In 2026, Spain chose a policy that most governments avoid: it offered legal status and work permits to people who already lived in the country without permission. More than 1.1 million people applied. Spain has done this once before, in 2005. Joan Monràs studied what happened next to migration flows, to public finances, to native workers and to the migrants themselves. Lídia Farré studies who Spain's migrants are and the work they do. She also ...
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