organised around six themes that include: the forces driving migration, over time and across space; the assimilation of migrants …This is a survey of some of the key studies in the literature on international migration in history that may be … migrations. Here I focus on the period 1850 to 1940 and chiefly on migration from Europe to the New World. The survey is …

. But the very nature of this choice makes identifying the impacts of migration difficult, since it is hard to measure a … credible counterfactual of what the person and their household would have been doing had migration not occurred. Migration … impacts of migration. We provide an overview and critical review of the three strands of this approach: policy experiments …

Despite its importance in global illegal migration, there is little, and mostly theoretical research on human smuggling … interactions in the smuggling market, and, hence, migration flows. We review the theoretical work, point to the scarce empirical … evidence, and identify challenges for future theoretical, empirical work and policy advice. -- illegal migration ; trafficking …

identifies avenues for future research. -- migration ; program evaluation ; immigrant selection ; settlement policy …

the presence of different migration regimes, as well as the possibility of reverse causality between welfare spending and …

advantages of migration have been used to argue against this, but much of the discussion has been absent of evidence. This paper … between skilled and unskilled migration? 5) What makes brain drain more likely? 6) Does brain gain exist? 7) Do high …