in China, the paper calls for a housing strategy that accommodates the surging waves of rural to urban migration, one of … strategies in the face of distinctive urban opportunities and threats. In the context of migration, they form the underlying …

Dharavi, Mumbai. The focus is on certain features of employment such as migration and labour mobility. The core data for the …

sending economies? How differently would skilled (or unskilled) migration affect both receiving and sending economies? What … factors would contribute to immigration/emigration benefits/costs and economic growth driven by migration? Who are the winners … different skill compositions to address these questions. We show that migration, in general, is beneficial to the receiving …

and in theory this may feed into productivity. In this paper, we explore first the composition of inward migration to the …

motives of migrants who decide to remit back to their families. Drawing on the theory of labor migration under asymmetric … remittances may be seen as an implicit insurance, whose benefits are received only under migration return. …

British cities are becoming more culturally diverse, with migration a main driver. Is this growing diversity good for … urban economies? This paper explores, using a new 16-year panel of UK cities. Over time, net migration affects both local …

A great deal has been written about the effects of foreign migration on the wages of U.S. workers. However, little is … known about the effects of Mexican interstate immigration (i.e., internal Mexican migration) and international return … migration of labor and foreign capital on wages and employment in the maquiladora industry in Mexico. We examine these issues by …