The main focus of the papers appearing in the first part of the book is on inequality and its effects on growth, labour market integration and government policies. The book continues by dealing with migration, its determinants and its possible effect on the host country's output, employment and standard of living. Finally, the authors discuss economic growth and its relationship with trade, capital accumulation and internal and external debts.Economists and researchers studying development economics and migration studies will find this original book, with its innovative state-of-the-art studies, of great interest.

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Contents: Acknowledgements Introduction Mathias Czaika and Carlos Vargas-Silva PART I ECONOMIC DRIVERS OF MIGRATION: THE ROLE OF GROWTH AND RELATED ECONOMIC FACTORS [274 pp] A Classical Theories 1. Larry A. Sjaastad (1962), ‘The Costs and Returns of Human Migration’ 2. John R. Harris and Michael P. Todaro (1970), ‘Migration, Unemployment and Development: A Two-Sector Analysis’ 3. Jacob Mincer (1978), ‘Family Migration Decisions’ 4. Oded Stark and David Levhari (1982), ‘On Migration and Risk in LDCs’ 5. Oded Stark and J. Edward Taylor (1989), ‘Relative Deprivation and International Migration’ 6. Barry R. Chiswick (1999), ‘Are Immigrants Favorably Self-Selected?’ B Empirical Evidence 7. George J. Borjas (1987), ‘Self-Selection and the Earnings of Immigrants’ 8. Michael J. Greenwood and Gary L. Hunt (1989), ‘Jobs versus Amenities in the Analysis of Metropolitan Migration’ 9. Michael Vogler and Ralph Rotte (2000), ‘The Effects of Development on Migration: Theoretical Issues and New Empirical Evidence’ 10. Peder J. Pedersen, Mariola Pytlikova and Nina Smith (2008), ‘Selection and Network Effects – Migration Flows into OECD Countries 1990–2000’ 11. Anna Maria Mayda (2009), ‘International Migration: A Panel Data Analysis of the Determinants of Bilateral Flows’ 12. Mathias Czaika and Krisztina Kis-Katos (2009), ‘Civil Conflict and Displacement: Village-Level Determinants of Forced Migration in Aceh’ C Return Migration 13. Yaohui Zhao (2002), ‘Causes and Consequences of Return Migration: Recent Evidence from China’ 14. Christian Dustmann (2003), ‘Return Migration, Wage Differentials, and the Optimal Migration Duration’ 15. Dean Yang (2006), ‘Why do Migrants Return to Poor Countries? Evidence from Philippine Migrants’ Responses to Exchange Rate Shocks’ PART II THE DIRECT AND INDIRECT EFFECTS OF IMMIGRATION ON ECONOMIC GROWTH: MULTIPLE CHANNELS A Labour Markets 16. David Card (1990), ‘The Impact of the Mariel Boatlift on the Miami Labor Market’ 17. Jennifer Hunt (1992), ‘The Impact of the 1962 Repatriates from Algeria on the French Labor Market’ 18. George J. Borjas (1995), ‘The Economic Benefits from Immigration’ 19. Rachel M. Friedberg (2001), ‘The Impact of Mass Migration on the Israeli Labor Market’ 20. David Card (2001), ‘Immigrant Inflows, Native Outflows, and the Local Labor Market Impacts of Higher Immigration’ B Fiscal Impact 21. Alan J. Auerbach and Philip Oreopoulos (1999), ‘Analyzing the Fiscal Impact of U.S. Immigration’ 22. Kjetil Storesletten (2000), ‘Sustaining Fiscal Policy through Immigration’ 23. Ronald Lee and Timothy Miller (2000), ‘Immigration, Social Security, and Broader Fiscal Impacts’ 24. Assaf Razin, Efraim Sadka and Phillip Swagel (2002), ‘Tax Burden and Migration: A Political Economy Theory and Evidence’ C Technology and Innovation 25. William R. Kerr (2008), ‘Ethnic Scientific Communities and International Technology Diffusion’ 26. Jennifer Hunt and Marjolaine Gauthier-Loiselle (2010), ‘How Much Does Immigration Boost Innovation?’ 27. William R. Kerr (2010), ‘Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation’ 28. Jennifer Hunt (2011), ‘Which Immigrants Are Most Innovative and Entrepreneurial? Distinctions by Entry Visa’ PART III THE DIRECT AND INDIRECT EFFECTS OF EMIGRATION ON ECONOMIC GROWTH: MULTIPLE CHANNELS A Brain Drain and Brain Gain 29. Robert E.B. Lucas (1987), ‘Emigration to South Africa's Mines’ 30. Michel Beine, Frédéric Docquier and Hillel Rapoport (2001), ‘Brain Drain and Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence’ 31. Oded Stark (2004), ‘Rethinking the Brain Drain’ 32. Michel Beine, Frédéric Docquier and Cecily Oden-Defoort (2011), ‘A Panel Data Analysis of the Brain Gain’ B Remittances 33. Richard H. Adams Jr. and John Page (2005), ‘Do International Migration and Remittances Reduce Poverty in Developing Countries?’ 34. Carlos Vargas-Silva (2008), ‘Are Remittances Manna from Heaven? A Look at the Business Cycle Properties of Remittances’ 35. Natalia Catrinescu, Miguel Leon-Ledesma, Matloob Piracha and Bryce Quillin (2009), ‘Remittances, Institutions, and Economic Growth’ 36. Paola Giuliano and Marta Ruiz-Arranz (2009), ‘Remittances, Financial Development, and Growth’ PART IV MIGRATION, LONG-TERM GROWTH AND CONVERGENCE 37. Richard A. Easterlin (1966), ‘Economic-Demographic Interactions and Long Swings in Economic Growth’ 38. Robert J. Barro and Xavier Sala-I-Martin (1991), ‘Convergence Across States and Regions’ 39. John F. Helliwell (1996), ‘Convergence and Migration among Provinces’ 40. Alan M. Taylor and Jeffrey G. Williamson (1997), ‘Convergence in the Age of Mass Migration’