This paper is concerned with the determinants and consequences of intercontinental migration over the past four … centuries. It begins with a review of the history of primarily trans-Atlantic migration to the New World during the period of … Colonial settlement. The contract and coerced migration from Europe and Africa gave way, from the 18th century, to an era of …

Migration presents a stark policy dilemma. Research repeatedly confirms that migrants, their families back home, and … to declining social services. Moving for Prosperity: Global Migration and Labor Markets addresses this dilemma. In … addition to providing comprehensive data and empirical analysis of migration patterns and their impact, the report argues for a …

The Global Compacts on Migration (GCM) and Refugees (GCR) include policy recommendations that aim to increase … opportunities for legal labour migration, improve protections for migrant workers, and provide refugees with ‘complementary pathways … migration. More ‘labour market realism' is needed to incrementally but effectively improve protections for migrant workers …

. There are also important market and regulatory failures that constrain mobility and reduce the net benefits of migration … internalize the social costs of migration in receiving regions; and (5) more flexible private sector driven schemes to regulate … the flow of migrants and minimize irregular migration …