Migrants and markets : : perspectives from economics and the other social sciences / / edited by Holger Kolb and Henrik Egbert.

• Superior document: IMISCOE research
• TeilnehmendeR: Kolb, Holger,; Egbert, Henrik, 1967-
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, 2008.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: IMISCOE research.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (243 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Feb 2021).

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.

Table of Contents

Migrants and markets : perspectives from economics and the other social sciences / Holger Kolb and Henrik Egbert -- The impact of immigration on the labour market : a survey / Christian Lumpe -- Investigating the economic impact of immigration on the host country : the case of Norway / Mete Feridun -- The exit option of labour migration from East to West Germany : individual and contextual determinants of unemployed workers' geographic mobility / Michael Windzio -- How recent amendments in German immigration law affect decisions : the case of Polish doctors / Simon Fellmer -- Educational selectivity and labour market attainment of Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Israel and Germany in the 1990s / Irena Kogan and Yinon Cohen -- States as clubs? : the political economy of state membership / Holger Kolb -- Chinese student migration in Europe : a migration that nobody objects to? / Wei Shen -- Assessing interdependencies between sector structures and labour migration : a comparative study of the British and the German health sectors / Kirsten Hoesch -- Workers' remittances in international risk sharing / Metodij Hadzi-Vaskov -- Skills and remittances : the case of Afghan, Egyptian and Serbian immigrants in Germany / Florin-Petru Vadean -- The impact of migration on foreign trade in Bolivia / Gustavo Javier Canavire Bacarreza and Laura Ruud.