We study the long-run growth impact on the emigrants' country of origin of a change in immigration policy implemented by the host country. The policy change takes the form of an increase in the ratio of temporary to permanent visas issued. This policy change has two counteracting effects on the...

<italic>The social sciences have produced both theoretically and empirically a large literature in order to explain why urban areas are socially differentiated, and also the consequences of this urban specialization on several economic and social variables. But the major part of all these works is...</italic>

Cet article étudie l’impact de l’exode des cerveaux sur le bien-être des travailleurs de la région de départ lorsque celle-ci peut bénéficier des avancées technologiques de la région d’accueil, par un processus d’imitation, et que les émigrés envoient une partie de leur revenu...

[fre] Cet article étudie l'impact de la migration de la main-d'œuvre sur les taux de chômage locaux, sur le niveau général du chômage et sur le bien-être, lorsque les salaires sont négociés au sein de chaque entreprise. On considère deux régions dont le marché des biens est...

In this paper, we study the impact of the human capital background on ethnic educational gaps between second-generation immigrants in France. First, we show that the skill of immigrants explains the main part of the ethnic educational gap between their children. More precisely, if the education...

A partir des données de l'enquête sur le Passage à la Retraite des Immigrés réalisée en 2003, cet article cherche à comprendre pourquoi les ressortissants d'origine portugaise résidant en France se singularisent par des intentions de retour au pays à la retraite deux fois supérieures...

This paper analyses the relative position of French, Portuguese and North African workers in the French labour market. We notably show that given the sex, the qualification, the potential experience, the localisation and the sector of activity, Portuguese have a lower propensity of being...

The social sciences have produced both theoretically and empirically a large literature in order to explain why urban areas are socially differentiated, and also the consequences of this urban specialization on several economic and social variables. But the major part of all these works is...

The aim of this paper is to study the impact of labour migration on unemployment dynamics when labour markets are non competitive. We consider a dynamic model with two regions where wages are locally negotiated at the firm level. We show that, in the long run, labour migration does not affect...