Problem: The creation of the European Union gave people the right of free movement between the membership countries. In theory, the creation of a single market should create many additional employment and earning opportunities for the workers in the member states of the EU (Bauer & Zammermann, 1999 cited at Borjas, 2010). Some natives believe that an increase in immigration will post a threat to them. They believe that their wages will go down and jobs will be taken from them. Is this true or is it just a sign of xenophobia? Purpose of the Research: The purpose of this study was to replicate successfully the study: “Examining the Relationship between Immigration and Unemployment Using National Insurance Number Registration Data” by Lucchino, P., Rosazza – Bondibene, C., and Portes, J. from 2012. Then the same research methods were used in Swedish data analysis. Methods: Data on unemployment and immigration was collected from Sweden and the UK and multiple regressions were run using the STATA11 software. Conclusion: The immigration rate had no significant affect on the unemployment rate both in the UK and Sweden. However, adding a one year lagged immigration rate was found to be significant at a 5% significance level in the Swedish analysis, but was insignificant in the UK analysis. The control variables for labor supply proved to be insignificant in the analysis of both countries.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-12T20:12:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PGEF14MA023.pdf: 1162043 bytes, checksum: 8432963324a52811e61e2d071eacc033 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-07-31 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Gene flow is a determining component of persistence and adaptation of local populations, and may influence their ecological properties. Understand the behavior of this flow in natural or altered populations is essential for developing effective conservation plans by the use of natural resources. We investigated the influence of Pinus plantations in the pollen dispersal patterns in remaining Araucaria angustifolia populations (patches), using paternity analysis with eight microsatellite locos. For this, we sampled two patches in the grassland area and two patches in the pine plantations area, located in southern Santa Catarina plateau. In the study areas all male reproductive individuals (68) and 400 seeds from 20 seed-tree (five per population) were mapped and genotyped. The paternity analysis revealed higher average distance of pollination for grassland area (170 m) than Pinus plantation area (67 m). The effective number of pollen donors (Nep) was 16.4 and 8.9 for grassland area and Pinus, respectively. Grassland areas showed a pollen immigration rate of 46%, and the plantation area showed a 36%. These results are an indication that the Pinus plantation can act as barrier to pollen flow, although, pollen dispersal occurs through plantings. There was no significant spatial genetic structure for adults, and high levels of genetic diversity were verified in both areas (He, ranging 0.16 to 0.829), with no significant differences, suggesting presence of historic gene flow between locals. While the seeds from natural grasslands seed-tree present no significant fixation index, the seeds from seed-tree located into Piuns plantations presented significant fixation indexes (F = 0.076, P<0.05). Both adult population and seeds showed private alleles, evidencing that not all possible reproductive individuals, in the remnants, contributed to seed sampled formation, however, pollen flow from outside contributed effectively to seed formation within patches / O fluxo gênico é um dos componentes determinantes da persistência e adaptação das populações locais, podendo influenciar em suas propriedades ecológicas. Entender o comportamento desse fluxo em populações naturais ou alteradas é essencial para elaboração de planos eficazes de conservação pelo uso dos recursos naturais. Investigou-se a influência de plantios de Pinus no padrão de dispersão de pólen em populações remanescentes de Araucaria angustifolia (capões), por meio análises de paternidade com oito locos microssatélites. Para isso, amostraram-se dois capões em área de campo e dois em área de plantios de Pinus, localizados no planalto sul catarinense. Nas áreas de estudo (capões) foram mapeados e genotipados todos os 68 indivíduos machos reprodutivos e mais 400 sementes retiradas de 20 plantas matrizes (cinco por população). A análise de paternidade revelou que a distância média de polinização para a área de campo (170 m), foi maior do que para área de plantios de Pinus (67 m). O número efetivo de polinizadores (Nep) foi de 16,4 e 8,9 para área de campo e plantio de Pinus, respectivamente. Áreas de campo apresentaram uma taxa de imigração de pólen de 46% e áreas de plantio apresentaram 36%. Esses resultados são um indicio de que os plantios de Pinus podem agir como barreira ao fluxo de pólen, embora ainda ocorre fluxo através dos plantios. Verificou-se a presença de estrutura genética espacial não significativa para os indivíduos adultos em ambas as áreas, além de uma elevada diversidade genética (He, variando de 0,16 a 0,829), sem diferenças significativas, sugerindo a presença de um fluxo gênico histórico entre as áreas. Enquanto as sementes oriundas das matrizes em meio as áreas de campo não apresentaram índice de fixação significativos, as sementes oriundas das árvores em meio aos plantios de Pinus apresentarem índices de fixação significativos (F = 0,076, P<0,05). Tanto a população adulta quanto as sementes apresentaram alelos exclusivos, evidenciando que nem todos os indivíduos reprodutivos presentes nos remanescentes contribuíram para a formação da amostra de sementes, entretanto o fluxo de pólen externo contribuiu efetivamente para formação das sementes de dentro do capão