Economics facilitating travel & migration

This topic refers to the financial aspects of facilitating travel and migration. This includes the costs and labour involved in migration processes. It is about financial profits and the business plans of private service providers, state or privately funded support of humanitarian actors and the pro bono work of volunteers. This domain also encompasses acts of profiteering, cheating and exploitation. Services include providing shelter, clothes or food, issuing tickets, visas, health certificates and other documents. They span from  advice to mediation, and from recruitment and transportation to smuggling. The economics of facilitating travel and migration partly overlap with some dimensions of the concept of migration industries, notably commercialised migration infrastructures provided by actors aiming for financial gains.

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Economics of Migration.

Authors Paul A. Dodd, Julius Isaac
Year 1949
Journal Name American Sociological Review
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1 Journal Article

​KNOMAD-ILO Migration Costs Surveys

Description
he KNOMAD-ILO Migration Costs Surveys (MCS) aim to systematically document monetary and non-monetary costs incurred by migrant workers seeking jobs abroad. The project is a joint initiative by the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development (KNOMAD), which is hosted at the World Bank, and the International Labor Organization (ILO). The data is also intended to support methodological work on developing a new Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) indicator 10.7.1 to monitor trends in recruitment costs paid by workers, of which the World Bank and ILO are joint custodians. Datasets and documentation for the 2015 and 2016 survey waves are now available on the World Bank’s Central Microdata Catalog. Collectively, the surveys covered over 19 bilateral migration corridors with a total of 5,603 interviewed migrants. The Migration Costs Surveys primarily focused on costs incurred by workers who were recruited in their home countries and received a job offer prior to migrating. On a pilot basis, several migration corridors were also surveyed to account for non-recruited migrants who moved abroad in search of work without prior job offers. In the 2015 dataset, these are limited to workers who migrated to Mexico from Guatemala, Honduras and El-Salvador and in 2016, the relevant corridors are workers who migrated to Italy from multiple African countries and from Central Asia to Russia.
Year 2015
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2 Data Set

Migration costs and determinants of bilateral migration flows

Authors Dmytro VIKHRIV
Description
In this paper I research economic, non-economic and the institutional determinants of bilateral migration flows into OECD countries. My contribution to the growing literature is two-fold. First, I explicitly account for the panel structure of migration costs information acquisition, physical costs of the move and social exclusion). Second, building upon Beine et al. (2011b), I proceed with the analysis of determinants of bilateral migration flows disaggregated by educational attainments in the panel data environment. The preliminary results show that the defined cost variables are significant in explaining the volume and composition of the flow of migrants, the result not being sensitive to the model specification. Network effects promote negative self-selection and the quality of migrants positively correlates, while the physical distance, existence of a common language and colonial links between countries are insignificant in explaining the educational composition of migrants. I further conclude that the restrictive and skill selective immigration policies of the major destination countries bias the conventional role of the economic push and pull factors.
Year 2013
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6 Report

Migration and Incomes in Source Communities: A New Economics of Migration Perspective from China

Authors J. Edward Taylor, Scott Rozelle, Alan de Brauw
Year 2003
Journal Name Economic Development and Cultural Change
Citations (WoS) 209
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10 Journal Article

The role of sending countries in the labor market assimilation of immigrants in host countries

Authors Metin NEBILER
Description
The literature on the economics of migration has ignored the role of sending governments in the assimilation of immigrants in host country labor markets. Recent studies show that immigrants do not cut their ties with the homeland. Various actors linked to homelands are involved in this process. In this paper, we present a different perspective, which identifies the possible actions of those actors, and in particular of government institutions, and their impact on the assimilation process. We hypothesize that these actors may influence the assimilation trajectory of their expatriates. The incorporation of these actors into the existing economics literature is discussed in relation to several categories of actions, such as pre-departure training, post-arrival training and naturalization.
Year 2013
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Inequality and the self-selection of international migrants: theory and new evidence

Authors Herbert Bruecker, Cecily Defoort
Year 2009
Journal Name International Journal of Manpower
Citations (WoS) 15
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15 Journal Article

Migrant Self-Selection and Random Shocks: Evidence from the Panic of 1907

Authors David Escamilla-Guerrero, Moramay Lopez-Alonso
Year 2023
Journal Name JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
Citations (WoS) 3
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16 Journal Article

INTEGRATING THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY GOLD RUSHES

Authors Keir Reeves, Lionel Frost, Charles Fahey
Year 2010
Journal Name AUSTRALIAN ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW
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18 Journal Article

Credible redistribution policy and skilled migration

Authors Roc Armenter, Francesc Ortega
Year 2011
Journal Name European Economic Review
Citations (WoS) 3
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19 Journal Article

Prepaid Tickets to the New World: The New York Continental Conference and Transatlantic Steerage Fares 1885-1895

Authors Torsten FEYS
Year 2008
Journal Name Revista de Historia Economica, 2008, 26, 2, 173-204
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21 Journal Article

Unauthorized immigration and fiscal competition

Authors Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Santiago M. Pinto
Year 2017
Journal Name European Economic Review
Citations (WoS) 1
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23 Journal Article

Crossing the border : self selection, earnings and international migration decisions

Authors Simone BERTOLI, Jesus FERNÁNDEZ-HUERTAS MORAGA, Francesco ORTEGA
Year 2013
Journal Name Journal of Development Economics, 2013, Vol. 101, No. 1, pp. 75-91
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26 Journal Article

Extending the Case for a Beneficial Brain Drain

Authors Simone Bertoli, Herbert Bruecker
Year 2011
Journal Name Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
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29 Journal Article

The Economics of Mass Migration: Theory and Evidence

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Year 2013
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30 Project

Economic Development and Structural Transformation

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Year 2017
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35 Project

Migrants hautement qualifiés et flux internationaux de talents, connaissances et capitaux

Principal investigator Ernest Miguelez (Principal Investigator)
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Year 2017
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36 Project

Міграційний парадокс війни: реверсивні грошові перекази з України

Authors Taras Romashchenko
Description
Повномасштабне російське вторгнення в Україну призвело до появи принципово нового, з огляду на обсяги, для держави явища – реверсивних/зворотних грошових переказів (англ. – reverse remittances). Як наслідок, Україна під час війни стала нетто-донором грошових переказів.
Year 2025
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39 Report

Reverse remittances as a new normal for Ukraine: evidence from Germany and Austria

Authors Taras Romashchenko
Year 2024
Journal Name Forced Migration Review
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43 Journal Article

Migrant Resource Flows and Development in the Global South

Authors Edward Asiedu, Tebkieta Alexandra Tapsoba, Stephen Gelb
Year 2024
Book Title The Palgrave Handbook of South–South Migration and Inequality
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51 Book Chapter

Transnational Society in Light of Environmental Change

Authors Lore Van Praag
Year 2023
Book Title Remittances as Social Practices and Agents of Change
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60 Book Chapter

In-betweenness and Migration Interdependence: Lessons from Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine

Authors Anastasia Blouchoutzi, Revecca Pedi
Year 2023
Journal Name Studia Europejskie - Studies in European Affairs
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64 Journal Article

Short Take: Sampling from Transnational Social Fields

Authors Jose Luis Molina, Miranda J. Lubbers, Marian-Gabriel Hancean, ...
Year 2022
Journal Name FIELD METHODS
Citations (WoS) 3
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84 Journal Article

The impact of COVID‐19 government responses on remittances in Latin American countries

Authors Adriana R. Cardozo Silva, Luis R. Diaz Pavez, Inmaculada Martínez‐Zarzoso, ...
Year 2022
Journal Name Journal of International Development
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94 Journal Article

Non-Conventional Migration: An Evolving Pattern in South Asia

Authors AKM Ahsan Ullah, Mallik Akram Hossain, Ahmed Shafiqul Huque
Year 2022
Journal Name Journal of Asian and African Studies
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96 Journal Article
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