Abstract

This article presents an approach to modelling the socio-economic impacts of migration using an agent-based model (ABM) of interactions between migrants and natives. The model also accounts for a regulatory function of government which is the centralized creation of new workplaces that differ in the level of ‘technological return’ (i.e. the labour productivity that depends on the sectoral belonging of the formed workplaces). The proposed approach is based on the previously developed model of interactions between migrants and native individuals. It is focused on studying the socio-economic impacts of migration in the system with a more complex regulatory function of the government, which creates low-technological and high-technological workplaces that are attractive for migrants and natives, respectively. The agent-government has two possible strategies of workplace creation: cluster-based workplace creation in areas with high concentration of migrants and natives and creation of uniform workplaces aimed at increasing multi-particle interactions between agents of different types, and reducing the level of population segregation. This study also investigates the processes of assimilation, which are subject to the level of segregation of the studied communities, public investment in education and integration, etc. The proposed model also considers the influence of various control parameters, in particular, the influence of the agents’ tolerance level on their location choice in a boundary neighbourhood, the influence of the agents’ education level on the job search area dimension, and other important characteristics reflecting the behavioural features of members of the studied communities. Socio-economic impacts of migration are studied under various scenario conditions, which include different patterns of agents’ behaviour belonging to the considered communities, the rate of new migrants’ inflow, the amount of government education expenditures, etc.

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