How to allocate college seats across regions is an important yet largely neglected issue. It may imply a policy tradeoff between efficiency in aggregate human capital production and equality of opportunities for people growing up in different places. Furthermore, the flow of college attendance,...

The article presents a reflection on the impact of technology on the world of work and its risks in Portugal developed at OAT over the last years of research in the area. The text presents a brief historical overview of the impact of technological development on the world of work. Below is a...

This paper investigates the causal impact of reducing low-skilled temporary foreign workers (TFWs) on job vacancies in South Korean manufacturing sectors, using the COVID-19 quarantine policy as a natural experiment. The research applies Difference-in-Differences analysis with a shift-share...

The recent rise and distinct geography of populism highlights the need for high resolution data on the economic and political landscapes and improved spatial political economy models that explain their interrelation. This paper shows that divergent development generates political externalities...

This edited collection of migration papers would like to emphasise the acute need for migration related study and research in Romania. At this time, migration and mobility are studied as minor subjects in Economics, Sociology, Political Sciences and European Studies only (mostly at post-graduate...

This study assesses the sustainability of reintegration programs for repatriated Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) in Zamboanga City, focusing on the effectiveness of current initiatives and identifying key areas for improvement. Employing a mixed-methods approach, the research combines...

Between 2020 and 2023, Turkey experienced a significant rise in housing prices, with inflation-adjusted rents more than doubled in some regions, marking it a standout case of global house price inflation. This study exploits the regional and temporal variation in rental prices as a natural...

This paper unpacks the complex relationship between migration of men and the decision-making power of the women who ‘stay behind’ in Bihar, Eastern India. We use mixed methods research design to assess whether women perceive a shift in decision making ‘authority’ between different...

Bangladesh, like other least developed countries (LDC), has a large rural population and agricultural labor force. At the turn of the Millennium 75 percent of the LDCs’ population still lived in rural areas and 71 percent of the LDCs’ labor force was involved in agriculture. Yet, even the...

This paper examines how immigrants' migration duration and saving decisions in the host country respond to changes in purchasing power parity (ppp) as well as in the wage ratio between the host and source countries. For this purpose, I develop a model of immigrants' joint migration duration and...