Download or read book Return Migration Migrants Savings and Sending Countries Economic Development written by Rosemarie Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Migration and Economic Development written by Klaus F. Zimmermann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Klaus F. Zimmermann Migration has become a topic of substantial interest in Europe in recent years. Part of this interest is driven by the important political changes in East Europe and the potential threat of large East-West migration waves. However, due to the large differences in economic development a substantial migration pressure is also expected from the South of Europe as of other parts of the world. The global migration potential towards the higher developed areas has reached about 80 to 100 million people. Thereof, about 60 million would like to move permanently, 20 million temporarily and about 15 million are refugees and asylum seekers and approximately 30 million are iIIegals. The book consists of eight papers which are allocated to five parts: Theoretical Models (Part I), Performance of Migrants (Part 11), Migration Within Developing Countries (Part IV) and Immigration Policy (Part V)' Each paper begins with a brief summary of its content. Part I, Theoretical Models, contains first "A Microeconomic Zlmm.r-mann VI Model of Migration" by Siegfried Berninghaus and Hans-GUnther Seifert-Vogt. They study migration decision making under incomplete information and apply it to empirically relevant phenomena. The second paper by Gerhard Schmitt-Rink "Migration and International Factor Price Equalization" demonstrates that international migration tends to equalize national factor prices and factor shares even in the absence of international trade. In Part II, Performance of Migrants, Lucie Merkle and Klaus F.

Download or read book The Unsettled Relationship written by Demetrios G. Papademetriou and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1991-03-30 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than twenty million migrant workers send $40 billion to their countries of origin each year, making labor second only to oil as the most important commodity traded internationally. The essays contained here deal with this unsettled sociopolitical issue--international labor migration and its relationship to economic development--seeking to determine the effects of recruitment, remittances, and return migration on labor-exporting countries. Many analysts, sending-country governments, employers, and migrant workers feel that countries with unemployed workers should, if possible, export them to countries with labor shortages. Remittances from migrants and returning workers who were trained abroad should stimulate economic growth enough to reduce unemployment and pressures to emigrate. It was projected that within a decade or less, labor-importing countries would emerge from the labor-shortage phase of their development. However, migrant workers have become a structural feature of the economies in Western Europe, the Middle East, South Africa, and the United States: emigration does not promote development in the sending countries. This collection of twelve chapters by experts in the field examines the conceptual and theoretical issues in international labor migration and looks at the relationship between migration and development in Africa, between Mediterranean countries and Europe, between Asian labor exporters and Middle Eastern importers, and the effects of emigration on Latin America and the Caribbean. In addition to comprehensive introductory and concluding sections, Conceptual and Theoretical Issues in International Labor Migration and The Unsettled Relationship between Migration and Development, the volume is divided into four additional sections that scrutinize labor migration and development in Africa, Greece, and Turkey, Asian countries, and Latin America, Mexico, and the Caribbean. The book's recurring theme states that there is no iron law of migration-induced development: recruitment, remittances, and returns do not automatically generate stay-at-home development. This first thorough and comparative treatment, with its focus on the population, social policy, labor market, language, and foreign policy implications of recent and present policies, will be invaluable for courses on refugees and migrants in sociology and comparative public policy. Research libraries and international assistance organizations will find it an indispensable resource.

Download or read book International Handbook on Migration and Economic Development written by Robert E.B. Lucas and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-31 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook summarizes the state of thinking and presents new evidence on various links between international migration and economic development, with particular reference to lower-income countries. The connections between trade, aid and migration ar

Download or read book Return Migration and Regional Economic Problems written by Russell King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-27 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, originally published in 1986, based on extensive original research, presents many findings on the phenomenon of return migration and on its impact on regional economic development. It remains the only study of its kind. International in scope, the book includes chapters on return migration in Italy, Portugal, Greece, Ireland, Jordan, Canada, Jamaica, Algeria and the Middle East.

Download or read book Return Migration Migrants Savings and Sending Countries Economic Development written by Rosemarie Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Economic Development and Export of Human Capital A Contradiction written by Nadim Zaqqa and published by kassel university press GmbH. This book was released on 2006 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hypothesises that there is a positive result concerning an investment in higher education even when that person leaves the country, and that a policy aiming at a surplus of graduates can be seen as an export strategy. Develops a cost-benefit approach to evaluate data collected among Jordanian teachers, engineers, IT specialists and physicians about their remittances from abroad and their repatriated savings when returning to their home country.

Download or read book Economic Development and International Migration in Comparative Perspective written by Douglas S. Massey and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Politics of Return written by Daniel Kubát and published by Centro Studi Emigrazione. This book was released on 1984 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Migration Remittances and Development written by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication presents the current situation with regard to the magnitude of migrants? remittances to their countries of origin. In 2004, remittances exceeded official development aid in several emigration countries: they totalled USD 126 billion according to IMF estimates. Can remittances stimulate productive investments in the countries of origin? Can they spur economic and social development?The impact of remittances on the economic development of sending countries is examined. The book surveys the channels used to collect these funds, the role of banking systems and other financial institutions, and the introduction of new technologies and their impact on fund collection, how the funds are transferred; and how to reduce the costs. Focus is also placed on the different ways in which migrants themselves participate, together with non-governmental organisations, host countries and sending countries, to open up new avenues for policies on development aid and co-development. The direct role that migrants can play at the local level is highlighted.Several countries and regions are illustrated: Southern European countries, Mexico, Turkey, North African and sub-Saharan African countries, the Philippines and some Latin American countries.

Download or read book Migration and Remittances during the Global Financial Crisis and Beyond written by Ibrahim Sirkeci and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 2008 financial crisis, the possible changes in remittance-sending behavior and potential avenues to alleviate a probable decline in remittance flows became concerns. This book brings together a wide array of studies from around the world focusing on the recent trends in remittance flows. The authors have gathered a select group of researchers from academic, practitioner and policy making bodies. Thus the book can be seen as a conversation between the different stakeholders involved in or affected by remittance flows globally. The book is a first-of-its-kind attempt to analyze the effects of an ongoing crisis on remittance flows globally. Data analyzed by the book reveals three trends. First, The more diversified the destinations and the labour markets for migrants the more resilient are the remittances sent by migrants. Second, the lower the barriers to labor mobility, the stronger the link between remittances and economic cycles in that corridor. And third, as remittances proved to be relatively resilient in comparison to private capital flows, many remittance-dependent countries became even more dependent on remittance inflows for meeting external financing needs. There are several reasons for migration and remittances to be relatively resilient to the crisis. First, remittances are sent by the stock (cumulative flows) of migrants, not only by the recent arrivals (in fact, recent arrivals often do not remit as regularly as they must establish themselves in their new homes). Second, contrary to expectations, return migration did not take place as expected even as the financial crisis reduced employment opportunities in the US and Europe. Third, in addition to the persistence of migrant stocks that lent persistence to remittance flows, existing migrants often absorbed income shocks and continued to send money home. Fourth, if some migrants did return or had the intention to return, they tended to take their savings back to their country of origin. Finally, exchange rate movements during the crisis caused unexpected changes in remittance behavior: as local currencies of many remittance recipient countries depreciated sharply against the US dollar, they produced a sale effect on remittance behavior of migrants in the US and other destination countries.

Download or read book On a Variation in the Economic Performance of Migrants by Their Home Country s Wage written by Oded Stark and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Policy Research on Migration and Development written by David P. Ellerman and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a survey and analysis - with commentary - of migration issues and the related development policies for the sending countries. "Migration and development" is considered an unsettled and unresolved area for good reason. The policy issues are surprisingly deep and run to basic issues such as the nature of development as opposed to simple poverty reduction. North-north migration (between industrial countries), south-south migration (between or within developing countries), and north-south migration (from developing to industrial countries) are all covered although the paper focuses on the north-south variety. Attention is paid to the question of the dynamic mechanism underlying migration being one of convergence or divergence. Very often the policy issues push one outside what would be narrowly considered as "migration studies." For example, policies to reduce the brain drain go directly to the issue of educational reform in developing countries while policies to increase the developmental impact of remittances quickly carry one into the nature of business development itself. Ronald Dore's ideas on educational reform are outlined as a policy approach to the brain drain problem. Jane Jacobs' ideas on development are outlined in greater length as they are little known in development economics and yet directly address the policy issues raised by migration and development. This paper - a product of the Office of the Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, Development Economics - is part of a larger effort in the vice presidency to stay abreast of important development issues.

Download or read book Migration and Economic Development written by Klaus F Zimmermann and published by . This book was released on 1992-07-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Economic and Social Aspects of Voluntary Return Migration written by W. (ed.) Dumon and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue of “International Migration” is devoted to the Seventh ICM Seminar, which examined the economic and social aspects of voluntary return migration. After statements by the Director General and by guest speakers, thirteen expert papers are presented in English, followed by summaries of the debates, conclusions, and recommendations in English, French, and Spanish. The topics covered by the expert papers include: the different forms, reasons, and motivations for voluntary return migration; the meaning, kinds, and consequences of return migration; problems confronting migrants on their return to their countries of origin; the return of international labour migrants in the ESCAP region; measures which host countries and countries of origin might adopt to promote the return of migrants; measures to facilitate the reintegration of migrants into their country of origin; programmes to encourage the return of talent and reverse the 'brain drain'; measures to facilitate the return and reintegration of highly skilled migrants into African countries; and, the various reasons for voluntary return migration. The summaries, conclusions and recommendations are grouped under five sub-themes, as follows. Sub-theme a) considers the different forms, reasons and motivations for voluntary return migration. It was recommended that information and counselling services to migrants should be improved, and that researchers should identify the motives for the return of different groups and clarify the problems they face on their return. Sub-theme b) considers return migration in the context of overall migration, and points out the lack of data, especially on the problems faced by women. Recommendations include the need to study the effects of return migration on the migrant family as a whole. Sub-theme c) considers the problems of reintegration faced by those returning, particularly by second-generation migrants. Coordination in research was recommended, and also that migrants should be accurately informed, before leaving their host country, about conditions they will encounter, including an up-to-date evaluation of their employment opportunities. Sub-theme d) concentrates on measures to ease the reintegration of returnees, which could be taken by, firstly, the host countries and, secondly, the countries of origin. Recommendations included the suggestion that the ICM and other international organizations should expand their activities in this field. The specific needs of the children of returning migrants should be provided for in both the host country and in their country of origin. Sub-theme e) considers measures to facilitate the return and reintegration of highly-skilled migrants into developing countries. The recommendations include the suggestion that the experience gained in ICM's Return of Talent Programmes in Latin America and Africa makes a useful base which might be expanded. Regional skill pools might be set up, to achieve regional self-sufficiency in certain needed skills and avoid to their loss through emigration. Aid which helps developing countries to strengthen their educational and training capabilities might encourage the return and reintegration of skilled migrants. The volume is completed by an extensive bibliography of material published, in several languages, on the subjects covered by the seminar.

Download or read book International Migration Economic Development and Policy written by Çaglar Özden and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-08-20 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume provides thinking on new topics in the field of international migration, and presents nine additional studies covering countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, Middle East and North Africa, North America, South Asia and the Pacific, as well as Western Europe.

Download or read book Migration and Development written by Savina Ammassari and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-16 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on international migration and return of highly-skilled Ghanaians and Ivorians and presents empirical research findings that demonstrate that, under certain circumstances, return migrants can act as key development agents in their home country. It investigates the influence of a number of factors that condition their motivation to return and their capacity to stimulate change in their countries of origin. The aim of the study is the assessment of policy implications related to élite returnees’ development impact in evolving socio-economic contexts. The comparative and multi-method research strategy adopted revealed that migrants tend to return home with considerable savings (financial capital), new knowledge, skills and ideas (human capital), as well as with valuable contacts (social capital). Besides their level of education, work profile, and particular life experience, whether these migrants have worked abroad for a significant period, proved the most critical factor influencing their acquisition of different kinds of capital. However, there seems to be an ‘optimum’ work duration abroad – approximately five years – after which the benefits deriving from human and financial capital acquisition tend to stabilise. At the micro level, back home skilled migrants attained their goals, improving their relative income levels, expressing satisfaction with their work conditions and, more generally, enjoying a higher quality of life. At the meso level, they provided support to others in line with expectations and pressures they faced. They also introduced many kinds of new knowledge, skills and ideas in their workplace. At the macro level, return migrants promoted economic and political transformations through, among others, the creation of new businesses and various community development initiatives. The role of return migrants is influenced by many factors linked also to their situation back home. Reintegration into their home context proved challenging, especially for women, and returning migrants need time to overcome initial hurdles and get settled before they can start to make any meaningful contribution. That is one of the reasons why there is a need to facilitate their reintegration and create a conducive environment which can also foster return migration of the highly-skilled élite. More importantly, however, evidence is produced in favour of arguments and ideas about ‘brain circulation’, a strategy that can help in maximising the positive effects stemming from migration and return.