Intensified European integration,enlargement of the EU,and increasing migration activity worldwide have pushed migration and migration policy to the forefront of the European agenda.While many observers hesitate to embrace immigration emanating from outside Europe,sectoral skill shortages and...

Intensified European integration, enlargement of the EU, and increasing migration activity worldwide have pushed migration and migration policy to the forefront of the European agenda. This paper identifies the salient questions to be addressed by any educated migration policy. It embeds this...

This paper considers two major issues that need to be treated as matters of urgency. First, internal (within country) migrations in the Asian (ACI) region are mostly undocumented and large. It is shown there are significant differences in wages and human development measures to which migrants...

Dieses Working Paper entstand im Rahmen des gemeinsamen Forschungsvorhabens "Die räumliche Mobilität von Arbeitskräften im Erwerbsverlauf - Analysen für ländliche Räume in Deutschland" (MobiLä) des Thünen-Instituts für Ländliche Räume und des Instituts für Arbeitsmarkt- und...

Dieses Working Paper beschreibt das Rückwanderungsgeschehen von Arbeitskräften in Deutschland und dessen Bedeutung für die Wanderungsbilanzen von Regionen. Die Auswertungen wurden im Rahmen des gemeinsamen Forschungsvorhabens "Die räumliche Mobilität von Arbeitskräften im Erwerbsverlauf -...

Interstate migration in the United States has declined by 50 percent since the mid-1980s. This paper studies the role of the aging population in this long-run decline. We argue that demographic changes trigger a general equilibrium effect in the labor market, which affects the migration rate of...

Contrary to the welfare magnet hypothesis, empirical evidence suggests that immigration decisions are not made on the basis of the relative generosity of the receiving nation's social benefits. Even when immigrants are found to use welfare more intensively than natives, the gap is mostly...

Aging changes the political power in a democracy in favor of the elder generations. Consequently, the retirees can extend the pay-as-you-go financed pensions. Under free labor mobility like within the EU, the success of gerontocracy, nevertheless, is restricted by migration of the young...