What Fundamentals Drive World Migration?

Timothy Hatton and Jeffrey G. Williamson

No DP2003-23, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Governments in the OECD note rising immigration with alarm and grapple with policies aimed at selecting certain migrants and keeping out others. Economists appear to be well armed to advise governments since they are responsible for an impressive literature that examines the characteristics of individual immigrants, their absorption and the consequences of their migration on both sending and receiving regions. Economists are, however, much less well armed to speak to the determinants of the world migrations that give rise to public alarm.

Keywords: Emigration and immigration; Equality and inequality; Internal migration; Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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