Migrant Integration Policies and Bilateral Migration

Migrant integration policies and health inequalities in Europe

BACKGROUND Research on socio-economic determinants of migrant health inequalities has produced a large body of evidence. There is lack of evidence on the influence of structural factors on lives of fragile groups, frequently exposed to health inequalities. The role of poor socio-economic status and country level structural factors, such as migrant integration policies, in explaining migrant hea...

The Role of Migration-Specific and Migration- Relevant Policies in Migrant Decision-Making in Transit

This paper examines the role of migration-specific and migration-relevant policies in migrant decisionmaking factors for onwards migration or stay in Greece and Turkey. In this paper we distinguish migration-specific policies from migration-relevant policies in transit and destination countries, and in each case distinguish favourable policies from adverse policies. We test this categorisation ...

Migration and Integration in Borderless Village: Social Capital among Indonesian Migrant Workers in South Korea

Bilateral Migration and Multinationals

This paper starts by observing two novel facts. First, bilateral migration flows are pervasive across OECD countries, both for high-skilled and low-skilled workers. This fact goes against the common belief that migration merely reallocates cheap labor from poor to rich countries. Second, multinational corporations tend to hire a large number of migrant workers. In this paper I develop a general...

Economic Integration , Wage Policies and Social Policies

This paper sets up a two country monopolistic competition model with intra-industry trade to study the effects of an exogenous differential in wage and social policies on the location of industry. Two model scenarios are considered. In the traditional one with physical capital, such a differential induces a relocation effect which increases with the level of trade integration. The ‘new economic...