Italy is a country of recent foreign immigration with a long history of internalmigration. Concerns about economic integration addressed in the past flows of southern natives to the north and now the international migrants, who are crucial in an ageing society.

Migration promises to be one of the most difficult challenges of the 21o century.

Migrants from the Eastern Partnership Countries: Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan has increased in the last ten years. Two different patterns are detected among the most important groups: Ukrainian and Moldovan. The first is mainly composed by women with a temporary...

The paper wants to understand the assimilation pattern of foreign migrants in Italy. Three novelties characterize this study. First, the research compares the wage assimilation of international migrants with both internal migrants and local natives in Italy, a country with substantial internal...

Our research analyzes the effect of changes in migration policies and the accession to the European Union of former countries of emigration, considering the crucial role played by migrants in an aging society. We focus on the demand of family-care workers by using the last five years of the...

Our research analyzes the effect of changes in migration policies and the accession to the European Union of former countries of emigration, considering the crucial role played by migrants in an aging society. We focus on the demand of family-care workers by using the last five years of the...

Italy is a country with a long history of emigration and a very short experience of immigration. The paper first surveys the Italian emigration pattern describing the characteristics of the Italian emigrants (age, sex, skill level), their area of origins and the directions of their movement. The...

Policy-makers in European countries typically complain about the low level of labour mobility within Europe. At the same time they appear to be increasingly concerned about growing migration pressures from outside the European Community. In this paper, we try to cast some light on the issues of...