Macroeconomic evidence suggests that asylum seekers are not a “burden” for Western European countries Hippolyte d’Albis1,*,†, Ekrame Boubtane2,* and Dramane Coulibaly3,* Abstract This paper aims to evaluate the economic and fiscal effects of inflows of asylum seekers into Western Europe from 1985 to 2015. It relies on an empirical methodology that is widely used to ...