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 … the policies affecting the decision to migrate. The end of the first section provides an analysis of the emigration …

there is a demographic speed up in the making. Our estimates suggest that the pressure on emigration out of Africa will …Two of the main forces driving European emigration in the late nineteenth century were real wage gaps between sending … prominent in Africa today, but do or can Africans respond to them with the same elasticity as in the days of ?free? migration …

immigration studies have overemphasized the role played by differences in the distributions of countries' wages and skills …

This paper first presents a brief historical overview of immigration in Europe. We then provide (and distinguishing …

by sub-regions, the magnitude of the colonial vestige in Africa is a significant determinant of emigration flows. Overall … model and empirically tests the hypothesis that ex-colonial links can still play an important role in the emigration … migrate to Fortress Europe over the period of 1990 to 2001. While we find some differences in the exodus of skilled Africans …

This study reviews and evaluates the intertwined relationship between immigration and religiosity, focusing on the two … sides of the Atlantic - Europe and the United States. Based on the existing literature and on a statistical analysis of … religious landscape of Europe and of the United States and projections for the future; (ii) religiosity of immigrants (in Europe …

for the rate of return migration are then estimated using unique data on emigration rates matched to individual-level data …

redistribution are related to immigration to various rich countries. In this paper, we take a look at the other side of the coin. We … analyze emigration from Denmark, which is one of the richest and most redistributive European Welfare States. Using …

citizenship. In this paper I argue that both the degree of immigrant naturalization and subsequent emigration from Canada is …