Despite fast rates of economic growth, poor nutritional status and high mortality rates persist among Indian children. We use data from three waves of the Indian National Family and Health Survey to examine gender-specific trends in key indicators of child health between 1992-1993 and 2005-2006....

The flows of migration from neighbouring countries into the European Union have, since its inception, been more relevant than those of internal migration. Thus, labour movements from relatively less industrialized countries of the EU —such as Italy in the 50's—towards the relatively more...

In this paper we consider an overlapping generation model in which people, born in two different countries, decide where to spend their working period of life, and where to retire after it. The two countries differ in technology and quality of life. The "northern" country, N, is more productive,...