This paper investigates how beliefs of the destination country’s population in social mobility may influence the location choice of high-skilled migrants. We pool macro data from the IAB brain drain dataset with population survey data from the ISSP for the period 1987-2010 to identify the...

Irregular migrants are undoubtedly a vulnerable group from a factual point of view. Nonetheless, whether they can be conceptualised as a vulnerable group, from a legal point of view under European law, remains a much more debated issue. The legal implications of the recognition of a vulnerable...