The Productivity Commission released its research report into the 'Economic Impacts of Migration and Population Growth' in May 2006. According to the Commission's findings increasing skilled migration would make a positive, but small, overall contribution to Australia's future per capita income...

While there is a growing literature on the impact of climate and weather-related events on migration, little is known about the mitigating effect of different policies directed to the agricultural sector, or aimed at insuring against environmental disasters. This paper uses state-level data on...