International Handbook on the Economics of Migration

Edited by Amelie Constant and Klaus Zimmermann ()

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Abstract: Migration economics is a dynamic, fast-growing research area with significant and rising policy relevance. While its scope is continually extending, there is no authoritative treatment of its various branches in one volume. Written by 44 leading experts in the field, this carefully commissioned and refereed Handbook brings together 28 state-of-the-art chapters on migration research and related issues.

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy Social Policy and Sociology; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
ISBN: 9781845426293
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Migration and ethnicity: an introduction , pp 13-36

Amelie Constant and Klaus Zimmermann

Ch 2 Modeling individual migration decisions , pp 39-54

John Kennan and James R. Walker

Ch 3 The economics of circular migration , pp 55-74

Amelie Constant, Olga Nottmeyer and Klaus Zimmermann

Ch 4 The international migration of health professionals , pp 75-97

Michel Grignon, Yaw Owusu and Arthur Sweetman

Ch 5 Independent child labor migrants , pp 98-120

Eric Edmonds and Maheshwor Shrestha

Ch 6 Human smuggling , pp 121-134

Guido Friebel and Sergei Guriev

Ch 7 Labor mobility in an enlarged European Union , pp 137-152

Martin Kahanec

Ch 8 Minority and immigrant entrepreneurs: access to financial capital , pp 153-175

Robert Fairlie

Ch 9 Migrant educational mismatch and the labor market , pp 176-192

Matloob Piracha and Florin Vadean

Ch 10 Ethnic hiring , pp 193-213

David Neumark

Ch 11 Immigrants in risky occupations , pp 214-226

Pia Orrenius and Madeline Zavodny

Ch 12 Occupational sorting of ethnic groups , pp 227-241

Krishna Patel, Yevgeniya Savchenko and Francis Vella

Ch 13 Immigrants, wages and obesity: the weight of the evidence , pp 242-256

Susan Averett, Laura M. Argys and Jennifer L. Kohn

Ch 14 Immigrants, ethnic identities and the nation-state , pp 259-275

Amelie Constant and Klaus Zimmermann

Ch 15 Interethnic marriages and their economic effects , pp 276-292

Delia Furtado and Stephen Trejo

Ch 16 The impact of migration on family left behind , pp 293-308

Francisca Antman

Ch 17 Natural disasters and migration , pp 309-330

Ariel Belasen and Solomon Polachek

Ch 18 Immigration–religiosity intersections at the two sides of the Atlantic: Europe and the United States , pp 331-352

Teresa García-Mu-oz and Shoshana Neuman

Ch 19 Immigration and crime , pp 353-372

Brian Bell and Stephen Machin

Ch 20 Immigrants’ time use: a survey of methods and evidence , pp 373-392

David Ribar

Ch 21 Happiness and migration , pp 393-408

Nicole Simpson

Ch 22 Frontier issues of the political economy of migration , pp 411-431

Gil Epstein

Ch 23 Skill-based immigrant selection and labor market outcomes by visa category , pp 432-452

Abdurrahman Aydemir

Ch 24 Refugee and asylum migration , pp 453-469

Timothy Hatton

Ch 25 The economics of immigrant citizenship ascension , pp 470-488

Don DeVoretz

Ch 26 Welfare migration , pp 489-504

Corrado Giulietti and Jackline Wahba

Ch 27 Diaspora resources and policies , pp 505-529

Sonia Plaza

Ch 28 The evaluation of immigration policies , pp 530-552

Ulf Rinne

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