Migration Policies

Authors: Giovanni Peri, Gaetano Basso, and Sara McElmurry. The United States, home to many of the world’s top universities, is a higher education destination for talented students from across the globe. When foreign-born students are able to find work in local economies after graduation, the positive economic effects extend beyond their incomes, especially since many pursue degrees in sought-after science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields.

Authors: Simone Moriconi and Giovanni Peri. This column uses survey data from 26 EU countries to investigate the existence of culturally transmitted preferences for work.

Authors: Luis Eduardo Guarnizo, Ali R Chaudhary, Ninna Nyberg Sørensen. Oxford Academia, October 31st, 2017.

Author: Luis Eduardo Guarnizo. Ethnic and Racial Studies, January 4th, 2017.

Authors: J. Edward Taylor and Mateusz Filipski. This chapter describes a methodology for cost-benefit analysis that encompasses both the direct and indirect benefits and costs of projects.

Authors: Philip L. Martin (Edited by Hollifield, J., P.L. Martin, and P. Orrenius). Migration is defined by the United Nations as the movement from one of the world's 200+ nation states to another for 12 months or more, regardless of the purpose for being outside the country or birth or citizenship or legal status in the new country.

Author: Philip L. Martin (Edited by Irena Omelaniuk). This chapter was prepared for discussion at the Roundtable Session 2.1 on “Reducing the costs of migration and maximizing human development,” at the Global Forum on Migration and Development held in Athens, Greece, on November 4–5, 2009.

Author: Philip L. Martin. This article reviews the trade-offs between the competing goods raised by foreign S&E students and workers and the efforts of U.S. government agencies to reconcile them.

Authors: Giovanni Peri and Andri Chassamboulli. The large number of undocumented immigrants in the US can be reduced using different policies. Some of them, such as increased border security, increased deportation rates or increased cost for illegal to look for jobs will reduce illegal immigrants as well as total immigrants.

Authors: Giovanni Peri, and Francesc Ortega. This paper makes two contributions to the literature on the determinants of international migration flows. First, they compile a new dataset on annual bilateral migration flows covering 15 OECD destination countries and 120 sending countries for the period 1980-2006.