Italy is a country with a long history of emigration and a very short experience of immigration. The paper first … surveys the Italian emigration pattern describing the characteristics of the Italian emigrants (age, sex, skill level), their … area of origins and the directions of their movement. The determinants of the migration choice are then analyzed as well as …

Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large … literature, however, observes that average emigration rates are higher in countries with sustained increases in GDP per capita … than in either chronically poor countries or established rich countries. This suggests an emigration life cycle in which …

in the immigration flows from different countries, sampling error, and the effects of emigration – is fundamentally …

countries at rates not seen since before World War One. During the same period, economists' study of international migration has … effects of global migration during the past half century. That evidence falsifies most of the core predictions of the old … model. The economics of migration will regain vitality and relevance by discarding and replacing its outworn paradigm. …

Italy is a country with a long history of emigration and a very short experience of immigration. The paper first … surveys the Italian emigration pattern describing the characteristics of the Italian emigrants (age, sex, skill level), their … area of origins and the directions of their movement. The determinants of the migration choice are then analyzed as well as …