This paper accounts for the interdependency between illegal and legal immigration and its effects on average migrant productivity as well as on the fiscal budget. I present a simple model which proposes that the host country's government can reduce the required skill level for legal entry in...

The major objective of the research is to produce evidence-based knowledge on the social and economic impacts of labour migration by looking at the challenges and opportunities of Ethiopian labour migration to the Gulf and South Africa. On the one hand, international migration from Ethiopia...

This publication aims to fill a significant knowledge gap on the human rights of irregular migrants. It seeks to describe barriers faced by irregular migrants in the exercise of such fundamental rights as the right to health, to education, to an adequate standard of living, to social security,...