We review research on the impact of immigration on income distribution. We discuss routes through which immigration can affect income distribution in the host and source countries, including compositional effects and effects on native incomes. Immigration may affect the composition of skills...

This paper investigates the labor market effect of international migration on child work in countries of origin. We use an original cross-country survey dataset, which combines information on international migration with detailed individual-level data on child labor at age 5-14 in a wide range...

Given the large size of aggregate remittance flows (billions of dollars annually), they should be expected to have significant macroeconomic effects on the economies that receive them. This paper directly addresses the two main issues of interest to policymakers with regard to remittances--how...

This paper represents the first attempt to formalise the relationship between remittances inflow and social violence by developing a model which predicts that migrants’ remittances would lead to the reduction of social conflict in the recipient economy under the condition that remittances...

Using evidence from a 2006 postal survey of NHS organisations, plus eight case studies and source country interviews (India; Philippines; Zimbabwe; Poland; Spain) in 2007–2008, the paper explores the impacts of England’s ‘ethical’ recruitment policy as it developed from the late 1990s...

The paper aims to determine whether remittances from overseas Filipino workers improve or worsen income inequality. Using decomposition equations, the paper divides total inequality into its four components, namely wages, entrepreneurial incomes, other income, and remittances from migrants. The...

Addressing a gap in most discussions on globalization, Stalker examines how migration interacts with movement of goods and capital and how it is closely tied to social and economic changes. He makes starkly clear the major impact that economic convergence is likely to have on migrant flows and...

Analyses the actual and potential impact of the global crisis on international migrant workers through a focus on four issue areas. These are the employment and migration opportunities available to migrant workers, including changes in the demand for migrant labour and possible return to...

We present theory and evidence on international migration of couples. Our main question is how migration decisions depend on partners’ education and earnings, and the number of children. We use register data on full Danish population from 1982 to 2010, focusing on opposite-gender couples in...