Explaining the immigration policy mix: Countries' relative openness to asylum and labour migration

Labour migration to the UK from Eastern partnership countries

Stocks and flows of migrant workers from EaP countries in the UK are relatively small, and flows have declined recently following changes to UK immigration policy and the onset of recession. The demographic profile of migrants from EaP countries is similar to that of EUA8 migrants but employment rates have been much lower. A large proportion of migrants to the UK from EaP countries are highly e...

Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Policy in Oecd Countries

Refugees and asylum seekers are only a small proportion of the 60 million forcibly displaced persons. But those seeking asylum in the developed world have received much of the attention as western governments have struggled to develop a policy response. An analysis of asylum applications by origin and destination indicates that these flows are largely driven by political terror and human rights...

Labour migration as a response to relative deprivation.

The relationship between labor migration and relative deprivation is examined. "We model migration from one reference group to another as a response to relative deprivation and satisfaction: We say that a strong incentive to migrate exists if relative deprivation decreases while satisfaction rises with migration and that a weak incentive exists if the individual increases or decreases his sat...

Skilled Migration Policy and the Labour Market Performance of Immigrants

IZA DP No. 11241 DECEMBER 2017 Skilled Migration Policy and the Labour Market Performance of Immigrants* This paper studies whether migration policy, besides managing a country’s population size, is a suitable tool to influence immigrants’ labour market outcomes. To do so, it uses a migration policy change that occurred in Australia in the late 1990s and data collected by the Longitudinal Surve...

International Migration Papers 24 Labour immigration and integration in low- and middle-income countries: Towards an evaluation of the effectiveness of migration policies