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Migration and Economic Development (Hardcover, 1992 ed.)
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Migration and Economic Development (Hardcover, 1992 ed.)
Series: Population Economics
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Klaus F. Zimmermann Migration has become a topic of substantial
interest in Europe in recent years. Part of this interest is driven
by the important political changes in East Europe and the potential
threat of large East-West migration waves. However, due to the
large differences in economic development a substantial migration
pressure is also expected from the South of Europe as of other
parts of the world. The global migration potential towards the
higher developed areas has reached about 80 to 100 million people.
Thereof, about 60 million would like to move permanently, 20
million temporarily and about 15 million are refugees and asylum
seekers and approximately 30 million are iIIegals. The book
consists of eight papers which are allocated to five parts:
Theoretical Models (Part I), Performance of Migrants (Part 11),
Migration Within Developing Countries (Part IV) and Immigration
Policy (Part V)' Each paper begins with a brief summary of its
content. Part I, Theoretical Models, contains first "A
Microeconomic Zlmm.r-mann VI Model of Migration" by Siegfried
Berninghaus and Hans-GUnther Seifert-Vogt. They study migration
decision making under incomplete information and apply it to
empirically relevant phenomena. The second paper by Gerhard
Schmitt-Rink "Migration and International Factor Price
Equalization" demonstrates that international migration tends to
equalize national factor prices and factor shares even in the
absence of international trade. In Part II, Performance of
Migrants, Lucie Merkle and Klaus F.
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