Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off …

) and fostering migration, notably of skilled workers. The significant ageing-related decline in the labour force …

inequality across provinces show that, if migration is taken into account, disparities are markedly less, and have tended to …

This paper reviews immigration trends and their economic impacts in a number of OECD countries. While migration systems … migration flows. Some of the main factors driving immigration are then briefly discussed. The paper also considers the economic … claims that, while migration can partly offset slower growing or declining OECD populations, it cannot provide by itself a …

Inter-regional migration – the movements of the population from one region to another within the same country – can be … same country, drawing empirical evidence from country-specific gravity models of inter-regional migration for 14 OECD …, but are discouraged by high housing costs. In particular, house prices are found to be an important barrier to migration …

This paper sheds light on inter-regional migration, housing and the role of policies, drawing on a new comparative …-regional migration, which is found to be highly responsive to local housing and economic conditions. In turn, a large number of policies …-regional migration to local economic conditions. For instance, more flexible housing supply makes inter-regional migration more …