Migrants and Markets : Perspectives from Economics and the Other Social Sciences

by Kolb, Holger

• ISBN13: 9789053566848
• ISBN10: 9053566848
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-12-15
• Publisher: Amsterdam Univ Pr

Summary

Over the course of their interaction, economics and migration research have treated each other with mutual indifference. When migration research attempted to overstretch its bounds, economics reduced its analytical scope to those areas that originally seemed to belong to the genuine economic sphere. This volume considers eleven case studies that aim to overcome the artificial barrier between the two disciplines by applying the economic method to migratory phenomena, utilizing economic theories in order to explain migratory patterns, and regarding the structure and development of markets as crucial to the shaping of population stocks and the flow of migrants.

Author Biography

Holger Kolb is a researcher at the University of Osnabrück’s Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies. Henrik Egbert is a research associate in the Department of Behavioral and Institutional Economics at Justus-Liebig University in Giessen, Germany.
 

Table of Contents

Introduction: Migrants and Markets: Perspectives from Economics and the Other Social Sciences	p. 7
The Impact of Immigration on the Labour Market: A Survey	p. 20
Investigating the Economic Impact of Immigration on the Host Country: The Case of Norway	p. 46
The Exit Option of Labour Migration from East to West Germany: Individual and Contextual Determinants of Unemployed Workers' Geographic Mobility	p. 56
How Recent Amendments in German Immigration Law Affect Decisions: The Case of Polish Doctors	p. 81
Educational Selectivity and Labour Market Attainment of Jewish Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in Israel and Germany in the 1990s	p. 104
States as Clubs? The Political Economy of State Membership	p. 120
Chinese Student Migration in Europe: A Migration That Nobody Objects To?	p. 147
Assessing Interdependencies between Sector Structures and Labour Migration: A Comparative Study of the British and the German Health Sectors	p. 168
Workers' Remittances and International Risk Sharing	p. 189
Skills and Remittances: The Case of Afghan, Egyptian and Serbian Immigrants in Germany	p. 203
The Impact of Migration on Foreign Trade in Bolivia	p. 224
List of Contributors	p. 242
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