International migration and new mobility trends

International migration and new mobility trends

World migration community covers 3% of the world population, in Europe it is around 7% and 4% in the Czech Republic. Europe is an important target for migration stimulated by the work offer but also by wars and natural disasters. In Western Europe at the end of the 20th century there were 20 millions of foreign migrants and also probably 3–5 million illegal migrants. Recently, we have faced new...

Trends in International Migration

Trends in International Migration

The U.S. Income Distribution and Mobility: Trends and International Comparisons

Approaching three years into the recovery from the 2007-2009 recession, the unemployment rate remains over 8%. The persistent difficulty of many of the workers who lost jobs to find reemployment has meant reduced incomes for them and their families. An historically slow rebound in the labor market appears to be partly responsible for some groups' focus on the distribution of the benefits of eco...

International Capital Mobility, Infrastructure and the Effects of Labour Migration

Globalisation, perhaps paradoxically, implies increased regionalisation: nation states come more and more to resemble regions of the global economy as international factor mobility increases. The present paper presents a new perspective on the modelling of regional economies. The fixed-cost element of public infrastructure is emphasised: this allows both the tax-base effect and congestion to be...