Gravity models have long been popular for analyzing economic phenomena related to the movement of goods and services, capital, or even people; however, data limitations regarding migration flows have hindered their use in this context. With access to improved bilateral (country to country) data,...

The South-North migration corridor, i.e. migration flows to the EU from Africa, the Middle East and EU neighbouring countries in the East, have overtaken the East-West migration corridor, i.e. migration flows from Central and East European countries to the EU15 and the European Free Trade...

Transformations which took place in the Russian legislati on on migration in H1 2014 concerned not only the issues of citizenship (which issues were discussed in the previous issue), but the temporary labor migration, as well

The possibility of active and effective usage of domestic labor reserves used to be offered for discussion following a reduction in and slower growth of working-age population in Russia and growth in external labor migration from CIS member countries to Russia throughout the entire 2000x. The...

Even in a baseline scenario in terms of climate change and conflict in the EU's neighbouring regions, there is likely to be a substantial increase in the number of people trying to reach the EU in the coming decades. Moreover, an ever larger share of those seeking to reach Europe are likely to...

The data published by the RF Federal Migration Service (FMS) – although these by no means should be seen as absolute truth because of the widespread practice of illegal employment of foreign workers - may, nevertheless, be taken as a kind of baseline information. These data testify to the fact...

The pay-as-you-go social security system, which suffers from dwindling labor force, can benefit from immigrants with birth rates that exceed the native-born birth rates in the host country. Thus, a social security system provides effectively an incentive to liberalize migration policy. The paper...

We first theoretically argue that labor force graying caused by younger workers shrinking and older workers growing lead to more acceptance of foreign workers. The empirical results from Japan's prefectural data support this theoretical prediction and suggest that on average a 10 percent fall...

Based on the multiple regression model and scenario approach to forecasting, the ar- ticle estimates the Ukrainian migration aspirations towards Germany (the scale of migration, the economic activity of migrants, and their economic benefits). It is argued that major transformations in the...

The pay-as-you-go social security system, which suffers from dwindling labor force, can benefit from immigrants with birth rates that exceed the native-born birth rates in the host country. Thus, a social security system provides effectively an incentive to liberalize migration policy. The paper...