This paper is part of the joint project between the Directorate General for Migration and Home Affairs of the European Commission and the OECD’s Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs on “Review of Labour Migration Policy in Europe”. This document has been produced with the...

"Johann Oltmer offers a comprehensive overview of the background, forms, and consequences of migration in Germany from the late 19th century to the present time, including a perspective on migration research, a field that has accelerated substantially since the 1990s. An extensive bibliography,...

pt. 1. Labour migration movements in the Mediterranean : past and present -- part 2. The unintended effect of the EU's external borders securitization -- part 3. Mobility, migration and transnationalism in the Mediterranean region.

Adam Smith considered poverty and unemployment as push factors for migration and wages high enough to provide for a worker and his family as a pull factor. Migration as a free mobility of labour leads to an optimal allocation of the factor commodity labour as well as changes of employment which...

The decision of whether or not to migrate has far-reaching consequences for the lives of individuals and their families. But the very nature of this choice makes identifying the impacts of migration difficult, since it is hard to measure a credible counterfactual of what the person and their...