Assessing the migration potential and predicting future migration streams are among the most relevant, yet least well … understood topics of migration research. The usual approach taken to address aggregate-level prediction problems is to fit ad hoc … application to the case of EU-enlargement and the ensuing migration streams to be expected from Eastern Europe. …

The purpose of this paper is to review what has been learnt about Irish migration from the work of social scientists …

able to explain the downward trend in east to west migration using wage and unemployment information. Convergence in hourly …

, we test whether and how much language proficiency determines migration flows across Europe. The European Union with …

.S. immigrant workers and workers in their 42 home countries. The average price equivalent of migration barriers in this setting …

influx in Turkey has affected food and housing prices, employment rates and internal migration patterns in regions of Turkey … limited migration out of the region, but there is a significant decline in internal migration into regions hosting refugees …. Nevertheless, the decline in internal in-migration is less than a tenth of the refugee influx, implying that there is little …

benefits on the migration decision. While benefits simply increase the expected gain for risk neutral individuals, they work as … an insurance device for risk averse migrants; the results for the two groups might differ. Thus, the migration decision … model suggests increased migration incentives independent of taste and a positive selection of risk neutral individuals …