Human Development Reports

We calculate the optimal levels of immigration, from the viewpoint of an observer who maximizes global welfare, according to an egalitarian and a utilitarian social welfare function. We compare these levels to the open-borders-equilibrium level.

The presentation will focus on different data sources which are available for migration research from an international perspective and review the possibilities and pitfalls for each of them.

The Institute of Cultural Affairs International, with support from UNDP Poverty Practice, CIVICUS and the Global Compact, will host the 7th quadrennial Global Conference on Human Development. The preliminary lens for the 7th Global Conference is a set of 10 major human development challenges, which serve as starting-points for preparatory conversations.

The presentation will examine some of the difficulties of theory formation in international migration studies, and will suggest a way forward. The starting point is an examination of the dominant perception of ‘migration as a problem’.

In the process of migration, families undergo profound transformations that are often complicated by extended periods of separations between family nuclear and extended family members. Data is analysed from a study of 385 youth originating from China, Central America, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Mexico to the US.

The increasing proportion of immigrants in the population of many countries has raised concerns about the ‘absorption capacity’ of the labour market, and fueled extensive empirical research in countries that attract migrants. Professor Poot will present conclusions from meta-analyses of the impact of immigration on wages and employment of native-born workers.

The presentation will go over PRSPs, migration and policies which may have an impact on migration. In particular, it will address what have been the key policies in developing countries in terms of emigration and immigration, and also internal migration.