Observing rapid structural transformation accompanied by a continual process of rural to urban migration in many developing countries, we construct a micro founded dynamic framework to explore how important education-based migration is, as opposed to work-based migration, for economic...

Österreich hat - wie viele europäische Länder - eine lange Tradition der Zuwanderung. Die Migrationsbewegungen haben in den letzten Jahrzehnten mit fortschreitender Globalisierung stark an Dynamik gewonnen. Die Integration von MigrantInnen wurde damit zu einem zentralen...

Einleitung: Marie Toepper: Temporäre Ausstellungen als Triebkräfte der Musealisierung von Migration in Deutschland seit 1990; Burcu Dogramaci: Migration findet Stadt(museum) – Repräsentationen von Einwanderungsgeschichte. Mit einem Exkurs zu Orhan Pamuks ›Museum der Unschuld‹; Natalie Bayer...

This paper reviews the existing literature on the impact of migrants networks on the patterns of international migration. It covers the theoretical channels at stake in the global effect of the networks. It identifies the key issues, namely the impact on size, selection and concentration of the...

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...

This paper adds international migration and remittances into the IMF's Flexible System of Global Models (FSGM). FSGM is a global general equilibrium model with endogenous primary commodity markets. A method to estimate the structural dynamics of major remitter regions is proposed. The dynamics...