Transformations which took place in the Russian legislati on on migration in H1 2014 concerned not only the issues of citizenship (which issues were discussed in the previous issue), but the temporary labor migration, as well

Purpose – How do economic prosperity, health expenditure, savings, price-stability, demographic change, democracy, corruption-control, press-freedom, government effectiveness, human development, foreign-aid, physical security, trade openness and financial liberalization play-out in the fight...

This paper examines three relevant hypotheses on the incidence of health worker migration on human development and economic prosperity (at macro and micro levels) in Africa. Owing to lack of relevant data on Health Human Resource (HHR) migration for the continent, the subject matter has remained...

Using data on border enforcement and macroeconomic indicators from the United States and Mexico, we estimate a two-country business cycle model of labor migration and remittances. The model matches the cyclical dynamics of unskilled migration and documents the insurance role of remittances in...

Today, nearly one-third of Americans in the labor force are in non-standard employment. The rise of non-standard employment, beginning in the mid-1970s, has occurred at the same time as the precarity of work has increased, and the number of bad jobs has grown as well. Independent contracting is...

This article analyses the distributional impact of remittances across two regions of Algerian emigration (Nedroma and Idjeur) using an original survey we conducted of 1,200 households in 2011. Remittances and especially the role played by foreign pensions decrease the Gini index by nearly 4 %...

Using new survey data from Mexico, a dynamic econometric model is estimated to test the effect of policy changes on the flow of migrant labor from rural Mexico to the United States and test for differential effects of policy changes on male and female migration. We find that both IRCA and NAFTA...

As of 2005, over 190 million people were migrants living outside the country in which they were born. Human rights abuses against migrant workers are well documented, particularly in the domestic service sector. Although international law specifically addresses the human rights of migrant...

"L'histoire presentee dans cet ouvrage est celle de la migration telle que perçue et rememoree par les femmes et les hommes qui se sont deplaces, depuis 1900, à l'interieur comme à l'exterieur du Burkina Faso, de même que par celles et ceux qui y sont retournes. Il s'agit en effet de l'un...