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 …

emigration but the larger country may lose from immigration unless the external economies of scale are sufficiently strong. Both …

Higher net immigration to Germany might be key to cushioning the working-age population's aging. Yet, what migration … potential exists around the world, and how large will the resulting net immigration be? Germany is one of the most preferred … far lower annual immigration. Furthermore, many immigrants do not stay permanently. Despite the large migration potential …

New Zealand immigration policy settings are based on the assumption that the macroeconomic impacts of immigration may … are possible. Reviewing the literature, the balance of evidence suggests that while past immigration has, at times, had … significant net benefits, over the past couple of decades the positive effects of immigration on per capita growth, productivity …

In the early 1970s, Malaysia began to be inundated by foreign workers, all of whom were irregular migrants. A decade … country. To overcome the problems, Malaysia introduced the foreign worker policy which became fully implemented in 1992. The …

from a country of net emigration to one of net immigration. Before 1914 the economic and demographic forces that drove … increasingly inhibited by immigration policies in the principal destination countries. The decline in emigration is largely … international markets for goods and capital. Immigration policies in developed economies clearly hinder the mobility of labour. But …

for the rate of return migration are then estimated using unique data on emigration rates matched to individual-level data … for Australia. We find that immigrants, particularly immigrant women, are more likely to be retired than are native …

immigration due to its apparently unbearable social and political costs. However these costs are never measured and made … comparable across countries. In this paper we first discuss theoretically how tradable immigration quotas (TIQs) can reveal … countries and other immigration targets. Both applications are seen as possible precursors to a full implementation of a TIQs …

inefficient as it fails to internalize such externality. In addition, host countries quite often restrict immigration due to its … this paper we first discuss theoretically how tradable immigration quotas (TIQs) can reveal countries' comparative …

This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants …' remittance behaviour. More precisely, we compare the remittance behaviour of two cohorts who entered Australia before and after … existing evidence, time spent in Australia positively affects the probability to remit while in terms of regional effects …