The recently completed DEMIG C2C ('country-to-country') migration flow database (which has been part of the Determinants of International Migration project) has drastically expanded our ability to perform detailed analysis of recent patterns and trends of African migration to and from Europe, North America and Oceania.
We find that disparity in economic development between countries drives migration flows in both directions, while host-country demand has a stronger impact on out-migration than on return migration.
If there is correlation between unemployment rates of alternative destination countries, the estimated coefficient of the impact of unemployment rate in the origin country on migration flows is biased upwards.
Mexican drug cartels have identified a lucrative niche of opportunity in the geostrategic position of Mexico as "bridge country" for migration flows towards the U.S., and are now actively exploiting it.
This paper examines the role of wages in the migration decision and discusses the likely effect of wage increases in source countries in slowing migration flows.
Rolandas PAKSAS (EFD, LT) said a plan to "buy African countries to stop migration flows" was "unsustainable".. Harald VILIMSKY (ENF, AT) blamed major German car manufacturers for having applauded the Arab spring for setting free a cheap labour force.
If there is correlation between unemployment rates of alternative origin countries, the estimated coefficient of the impact of unemployment rate in the origin country on foreign migration flows is biased upwards.
Studying immigration in the Italian labour market is a matter of great interest, as Italy has become in a relatively short period of time a country with significant migration flows in the international context.
When either origin or destination country is landlocked, migration flows tend to decrease (Kim and Cohen 2010 .15 According to the literature, the expected signs of the variables are as follows: β 1 > 0, β 2 > 0, β 3 > 0, β 4 < 0, β 5 > 0, β 6 > 0, β 7 > 0, β 8 > 0, β 9 < 0.
Abandoning the so-called Dublin regulation could leave the UK and other northern European countries more open to migration flows, as the majority of refugees have been arriving in the south and trying to continue their journey overland.
