With the development towards comprehensive and more sophisticated border control regimes, the problem of protection seekers’ access to EU territory has increasingly come into focus. Disorderly movement is presently the main avenue to safety in the EU, and human smugglers act as important...

"The immigration of workers will remain a topic in future. That is why it makes sense to take a look at the immigration regulations of countries with high immigration figures. Switzerland was selected in addition to the classical immigration countries of Australia, Canada and the USA. The...

"This paper analyses the (self-)selection of migrants between countries which have substantial differences in the inequality of earnings and income levels. In an extended version of the Roy-model we consider migration costs, which tend to grow less than proportional with the income level. As a...