Migration and Economic Development

✍ Scribed by Siegfried Berninghaus, Hans-Günther Seifert-Vogt (auth.), Professor Dr. Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 268
• Series: Population Economics
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
A Microeconomic Model of Migration....Pages 3-40
Migration and International Factor Price Equalization....Pages 41-52
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
Savings and Remittances: Guestworkers in West Germany....Pages 55-76
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
The Impact of International Labor Migration for Turkey....Pages 79-131
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
Rural -Urban Migration On the Allocation of Risks in Developing Countries....Pages 135-174
Place of Birth and Past Place of Residence in South Korea: Methodological Considerations for Migration Research....Pages 175-197
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
Migration Pressure in Germany: Past and Future....Pages 201-230
The Economic Consequences of Selective Immigration Policies....Pages 231-264
Back Matter....Pages 265-267

✦ Subjects

Population Economics