potential growth phase may well disappear if supporting conditions for growth are absent. Large-scale migration is not expected … to be a sustainable solution to unbalanced global economic developments. Remittances, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and …. Remittances offer no structural solution to reduction of poverty as these funds flow to a selective group of families and are …

What determines remittances – altruism or enlightened self-interest - and do remittances trigger additional migration …, receipt of remittances may contribute to new flows of migration, in particular in the case of Morocco. … effects on receipt of remittances than net earnings potential of households in the country of origin. Second, the receipt of …

We investigate whether national borders within Europe hinder the assortative matching of workers to firms in a high … productivity estimates and study the ensuing rank correlation to gauge the degree of assortative matching within and across … countries. We find strong evidence for positive assortative matching at the national level, and even more so at the …

international migration research, both from a methodological as well as an empirical perspective. The purpose of this paper is … twofold. First, it aims to provide an overview of that part of the migration literature that is concerned with the …

whose societal conditions strongly improved by migration and immigrants who arrived after childhood. Faltering societal …