The Productivity Commission release 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 …. To assess the effect of skilled migration, the Commission estimated the economic effects of a simulated permanent …

population) and out-migration is lower the poorer and the less unequal the village of residence. Our results are consistent with …

This study analyses the effect of trade and migration on wages and labour market mobility. We estimate wage growth … in the reactions of white and blue-collar workers wages and mobility to trade and migration. In Austria exports have a … of workers. The risk of being out of work by contrast is increased by migration and imports for only blue-collar workers …

capital than if they had migrated without factoring in the possibility of migration (a form of brain drain), other workers … stay at home with more human capital than they would have formed in the absence of the possibility of migration (a form of …

This paper utilizes panel data from El Salvador to investigate the use of trans-national migration as an ex post risk … management strategy. We show that adverse agricultural conditions in El Salvador increase both migration to the US and … migration to the US. A one standard deviation increase in earthquake damage reduced the average probability of northward …

premises of migration research to foreground the agency and subjectivity of migrant women. It is argued that structural and … institutions regulating migration. The dichotomisation of unique versus collective modes of life-stories is questioned. Applying …

The purpose of the paper is first to quantify the extent of high skilled migration from India and then to distil out …