This report aims to assess the spatial dimensions of settlement, internal migration, and welfare inequality in Zimbabwe …

The paper uses Google mobility data to identify the determinants of social distancing during the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak …. The findings for the United States indicate that much of the decrease in mobility is voluntary, driven by the number of …

every three immigrants in the world goes to Europe. Furthermore, although globally onlyone-third of migration takes place … within regions, intraregional migration is especially high within Europeand Central Asia, with 80 percent of the region … high unemployment anddeclining social services. There are also widespread concerns about brain drain in the migrant …

. There are also important market and regulatory failures that constrain mobility and reduce the net benefits of migration … productivity growth; (3) social insurance programs that cover all jobs and facilitate labor mobility; (4) labor taxes to … internalize the social costs of migration in receiving regions; and (5) more flexible private sector driven schemes to regulate …

increase to 250 euros per month, the simulated unemployment rate increases by 0.4 percentage point in the short term and about … 0.6 percentage point in the long term. The youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24) is anticipated to increase by up to 1 ….1 percentage points in this scenario, a relatively large increase considering the already high levels of unemployment among this …

access to unemployment protection. These household shocks would reduce average per capita income by 7.6 percent, with the … unemployment insurance system, reduces the income shock to 5.3 percent. Even so, an additional 8.4 million Brazilians could fall …