Migration Economics

About

Migration is a major aspect of globalization and is increasingly at the center of the public and policy debate. What are the microeconomic impacts of migration and how to address the challenge of identifying them? What is the relationship between migration, other dimensions of globalization, and development? What are the public finance and demographic effect of immigration for the host countries? What are the effects of immigration on the labor market? How do host societies adapt to increasingly diverse population?

This course aims to present frontier research on the economics of migration and to provide the tools to contribute to this field.

Structure :
- Migration and Climate Change, Katrin Millock and Giovanni Peri (6 hours) – Joint with the Climate Change program
- Macroeconomic effects of migration for host countries, Hippolyte d’Albis (4.5 hours)
- Migration, Globalization and Development: Political Economy and Cultural Economics, Hillel Rapoport (4.5 hours)
- Identifying the Development Impacts of Migration, Toman Barsbai (6 hours)
- Immigration, Labor Markets, Productivity, Entrepreneurship and Firms, Giovanni Peri (3 hours)
- Immigrants in their host society: ethnic diversity effects and the contact hypothesis, Camille Hémet (3 hours)

Workshop : present your paper:
Participants will have the opportunity to submit a paper to be presented within this program. The submitted paper should be a work produced by the participant (e.g. Master’s dissertation, policy work or research paper for PhD students). Selected pieces will be presented (in 30 minutes) in front of participants and faculty over three slots of 1.5 hours each.

Course leader

Pauline Marmin

Target group

Prerequisites:
Master or graduates in economics with strong theoretical and empirical skills.

How will professionals benefit from the programme :
The program focuses on a major aspect of globalization, which is increasingly at the center of the public and policy debate. You will improve your ability to critically evaluate research and gain a better understanding of the economics of migration and associated policies. It will also help you think on how to design relevant policies.

How will students benefit from the programme:
It will provides you with modern tools to analyze the consequences of migration (in host or origin countries; at the global or more local levels), and will present state of the art models and literature on the economics of migration: useful to identify the frontier of research and think of avenues for future research.

Course aim

This course aims to present frontier research on the economics of migration and to provide the tools to contribute to this field.
The program combines theoretical modeling in the migration literature with the most recent and rigorous empirical evidence.

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