considered to be competitors for these resources. The question of how attitudes of majority populations towards immigration are … immigration from different minority groups, as well as attitudes towards related concerns, like job security and benefit … expenditures. We specify and estimate a multiple factor model. The correlation between answers to questions on immigration and on …

In this paper we look at the effects of immigration and trade with Eastern Europe on unemployment in Austria. Using … immigration effect on unemployment duration. Within almost all subgroups there is a significant increase in the length of … unemployment spells as a result of increased immigration. Increased trade with Central and East European Countries (CEECs) seems to …

rise in income inequality. Poverty has increased sharply with an estimated 18.5% of the population on incomes below the …

estimates of the impact of adjustment on poverty using household income and expenditure surveys currently available in LDCs. It … proposes the use of decomposable poverty indices as a tractable vehicle for calculating the impact of adjustment on overall … poverty. This framework does require, however, reasonably disaggregated data on income distribution. …

emigration life cycle since the 1960s, and, except for Africa, emigration rates have been level or even declining since a peak in … estimates the economic and demographic fundamentals driving these Third World emigration life cycles to the United States since … poverty trap, the size of the cohort at risk, and migrant stock dynamics. It then projects the life cycle up to 2024. The …

This paper develops a simple time-series model of emigration and applies it to data for emigration from the UK between … rates in the sending and the receiving countries influenced fluctuations in emigration. The short-run fluctuations were … driven largely by variations in employment rates while the long-run level of emigration was determined largely by the …

Emigration of labour and its subsequent repatriation can best be understood as phases of an intertemporal exchange … presented. The formulation of the emigration-repatriation cycle as an intertemporal phenomenon highlights the need for forward …-looking policies. The analysis suggests that planning for the period of net immigration and of reduced remittances should be an …