The potential of temporary migration programmes in future international migration policy

The Impact of International Migration on the Economy with the Assumption of Labor Heterogeneity

T his study investigated the effect of international labor migration on Iran’s economy using a neo-classical growth model with the assumption of labor heterogeneity within the framework of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model. After solving the model, the obtained equations were linearized and different values were assigned to the parameters according to Iran’s economy inform...

Temporary migration and economic assimilation

In this paper I study temporary migration and its consequences for immigrant behaviour. A distinction is made between temporary migration where the return time is exogenous and where the migrant chooses when to return. The consequences of both types of temporary migration for migrant behaviour (as opposed to a permanent migration) are illustrated. The specification of the empirical models will ...

International medical migration: what is the future for Australia?

Perspective ustralia has developed extraordinary reliance on international medical graduates (IMGs) compared with other OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) countries. Based on analysis of an unprecedented range of secondary data, I aim to define the recent scale and sources of medical migration, IMGs' immigration categories, their distribution, their performance in the ...

The International-Migration Network

This paper studies international migration from a complex-network perspective. We define the international-migration network (IMN) as the weighted-directed graph where nodes are world countries and links account for the stock of migrants originated in a given country and living in another country at a given point in time. We characterize the binary and weighted architecture of the network and i...

Trends in International Migration