differentials as well as differences in employment opportunities are the central forces which drive East-West migration after …

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

How is migration related to informal activities? They may be complementary since new migrants may have difficulty … finding employment in formal work, so many of them end up informally employed. Alternatively, migration and informality may be … substitutes since migrants' incomes in their new locations and income earned in the home informal economy (without migration) are …

How is migration related to informal activities? They may be complementary since new migrants may have difficulty … finding employment in formal work, so many of them end up informally employed. Alternatively, migration and informality may be … substitutes since migrants' incomes in their new locations and income earned in the home informal economy (without migration) are …

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

differentials as well as differences in employment opportunities are the central forces which drive East-West migration after …

European migration policies are characterised by a fundamental paradox: they are getting tighter and tighter just while …, based on a computable general equilibrium model, we evaluate whether migration to rigid labour markets a-la European … migration are, at a GDP gain of 0.2-0.3% at a migration of 1% of the labour force, but that natives in the receiving countries …

European migration policies are characterised by a fundamental paradox: they are getting tighter and tighter just while …, based on a computable general equilibrium model, we evaluate whether migration to "rigid labour markets" a-la European … migration are, at a GDP gain of 0.2-0.3% at a migration of 1% of the labour force, but that natives in the receiving countries …

This paper investigates patterns and determinants of temporary labour migration in Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova … and Ukraine after EU enlargement in 2004. Migration incidence, destination choices and migration determinants differ … between poorer and better-off countries. Although broadly in line with general results from the migration literature, we …