Circular migration receives increasing attention due to its empirical relevance and as a policy concept to manage labor flows. This review discusses the advantages and disadvantages of circular movements for all parties. It studies the characteristics of circular movers worldwide and...

Abstract: We study how local connections to persons in influential positions affect access to migrant jobs and government employment. In rural Nepal, it would not be surprising if social status strongly influenced the access to attractive labor market opportunities. This is not the case....

In a time of economic downturn and the recession in Europe, a migrants labour market position is even more precarious, and may influence their economic homeland engagement. Based on the IS Academy, Migration and Development A World in Motion Project survey data3, I focus on Afghan, Burundian,...

U.S. policymakers are concerned that negative home equity arising from the housing market crash may be constraining geographic mobility and consequently serving as a factor in the persistently high national unemployment rate. Indeed, the widespread drop in house prices since 2007 has increased...

The spatial agglomeration of economic activities play a crucial role on productivity but the composition of such an agglomeration is what really matters. There exists an ongoing debate between the predominance of the effects of agglomeration from specialization and diversity. This paper aims to...

Historically consolidated as the centre of the Brazilian industrialization process, the State of São Paulo, and particularly its metropolitan homonymous region, observed a relative loss of participation in the industrial product from the 1970s. Factors such as the diseconomies of agglomeration...

Climate change related risks impact and challenge the private sector in many different ways. This also applies to risk drivers like a companies' reputation and a changing consumer behavior. Since significant risk drivers for companies differ just as much as companies themselves, a sector...

Nach dem Mauerfall setzte in Berlin ein drastischer Abbau von Industriearbeitsplätzen ein, der auch durch einen Beschäftigungsanstieg im Dienstleistungssektor nicht kompensiert werden konnte. In den Folgejahren gelang es der Industrie, ihre Produktivität zu steigern, unter anderem durch...

Nach dem Mauerfall setzte in Berlin ein drastischer Abbau von Industriearbeitsplätzen ein, der auch durch einen Beschäftigungsanstieg im Dienstleistungssektor nicht kompensiert werden konnte. In den Folgejahren gelang es der Industrie, ihre Produktivität zu steigern, unter anderem durch...

Climate change related risks impact and challenge the private sector in many different ways. This also applies to risk drivers like a companies' reputation and a changing consumer behavior. Since significant risk drivers for companies differ just as much as companies themselves, a sector...