Understanding international migration trends is of great relevance for policy making. Migration affects the labour market, competitiveness, and growth of a country. It has social, as well as economic repercussions. This is especially true for a small, open economy like Cyprus. Thus, the ability...

Traditionally, Spain has been a destination for people coming from rich European countries. However, at the end of the last century, the pattern of these immigrant flows changed. The Spanish economic growth model, based on the construction industry, attracted large numbers of immigrants...

The present-day world features ever growing mobility - free movement of people, financial capital, markets and services. This mobility is enhanced and arranged by cross-national networks. The major instrument driving migration is modern technologies and information, including internet,...

The social effects were always at the core of economic theories and policies. Each person has two key roles: as a factor of production and the role of consumer, which reveal its importance for the development of certain economies. This paper focuses on researching the causes that generate...

Using sampling techniques to obtain demographic and social information on the immigrant population requires a specifically designed survey. To guarantee the reliability of results, the sample design should not be limited to commonly used demographic variables, but should also consider the...

The objective of the paper is to identify subregions (NUTS 3) of the central part of Poland pretending to metropolitan areas, as well as to study their impact on the domestic migration flows. Their social and economic situations in 2008 were determined on the basis of the composite measure...

This article aims to show that the benefits of international migration (often presented as a ‘global flow’) very much depend on the <em>positionality</em> of the areas involved, as well as the regional particularities. It is argued that countries producing south-north migration or diasporic states...

This paper studies in- and out-migration from the U.S. during the first half of the twentieth century and assesses how these flows affected state-level labor markets. It shows that out-migration positively impacted the earnings growth of remaining workers, while in-migration had a negative...

The complex migration flows in the European Union has gained a high interest during the last years among the policy makers, researchers, international actors and civil society. This paper aims to identify and describe the migration policy, legislation and response of governmental and...

В статье рассматривается комплекс демографических и социальных проблем, связанных с трансграничной миграцией населения. Предпринята попытка обобщить методы...