Migration and Economic Development
A special issue of Economies (ISSN 2227-7099).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 July 2020) | Viewed by 5802
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Migration has been a 'hot issue' of debate worldwide over the last few decades, both in the scientific community and in the popular press. Indeed, and due to recent developments in international migration movements, knowing how migration may affect economic and social development is, no doubt, one of the most important challenges facing societies nowadays and in the near future. Because of many factors, including trade, rising inequality, increase in connectivity, demographic imbalances, climate change, and political considerations, the number of migrants will likely keep increasing all over the world.
Against this backdrop, this Special Issue tries, to some extent, to offer new insights on the link between migration and development. To accomplish this aim, Economies invites papers dealing with this topic from a variety of perspectives. These can adopt either host country or sending country viewpoint, or a more global one. In the same way, papers on both short-term and long-term migration are welcome. Papers assessing return migration and its effects could also be included in this issue. Due to the emergence of a migration challenge in Europe, studies dealing with illegal migration—as well as the effects of legalizing undocumented immigrants—and refugee migratory processes would be really appreciated. In this line, it would also be pertinent to analyze the effects of information campaigns on the view of national citizens on migration.
Authors of the Special Issue are invited to address one of a range of potential research topics. The aim of the Special Issue is to bring together cutting-edge research papers, both theoretical and empirical, devoted to the analysis of the effects of migration on:
- Well-being, income, inequality, and convergence
- Poverty
- Employment/unemployment and wages
- Human capital formation
- Social networks
- Diaspora externalities
- Remittances and remittance channels
- Brain drain
- Technological and demographic change
- Trade and/or FDI
- Entrepreneurship
- Public accounts
Dr. Adolfo Maza
Guest Editor
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