Moving for prosperity : global migration and labor markets

Front Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Team -- Abbreviations -- Overview -- The patterns of global migration: Scale -- The patterns of global migration: Concentration -- The determinants of migration -- The short-term impact of immigration: Labor markets -- Addressing short-term costs: Assistance and adjustment policies -- The long-term impact: Immigrant integration and assimilation -- High-skilled migration, agglomeration, and brain drain -- International coordination of migration policy -- Final thoughts -- Notes -- References -- Chapter One Patterns of Global Migration -- Overall migration patterns -- The concentration of economic migrants -- Internal migration -- Refugees -- Migrant demographics -- Notes -- References -- Chapter Two The Economic Drivers of Migration Decisions -- Why migrate? The benefits of migrating -- Why migrate? The costs of migrating -- Why migrate? A cost-benefit analysis -- Who chooses to migrate? Skill composition and the selection of migrants -- ANNEX 2A Gravity models -- Notes -- References -- Chapter Three The Wage and Employment Impacts of Migration -- Conceptual issues: The factor proportions approach -- Empirical challenges: Immigrants and natives choose where to live and work -- Measurement challenges: Skill "downgrading" and the undocumented -- Empirical strategy I: The national skill cell approach -- Empirical strategy II: The local labor market approach -- Empirical strategy III: Natural experiments -- Emigration and labor markets -- ANNEX 3A Methodological challenges in the immigration literature -- Notes -- References -- Chapter Four Longer-Term Dynamics: Immigrant Economic Adjustment and Native Responses -- Economic integration of immigrants and refugees -- Return and onward migration -- Native responses to immigration -- Notes -- References