This paper focuses on African policy positions on migration to Europe and towards cooperation on migration with the EU and its Member States.

Research on the relationship between the local share of immigrants and natives’ attitudes towards immigration has neglected the conditioning...

Does citizenship facilitate access to employment and higher status jobs? Existing case studies have produced mixed results across mostly...

This paper assesses the potential for skilled labor migration from sub-Saharan Africa to Europe. It utilizes representative surveys from Ghana...

Trade preferences provide a potential policy tool for supporting refugee employment in countries of first asylum.

The paper examines the effect of the import of cultural goods as defined by UNESCO (2009): cultural heritage, performance, visual arts, books,...

This paper uses geographically disaggregated data to investigate the role of foreign aid as a pull factor for internal migration in Malawi...

Using 35 years of data on migration flows to OECD destinations, we successfully reproduce the hump-shape in the cross-section.

In 2015, German Chancellor Angela Merkel decided to allow over a million asylum seekers to cross the border into Germany. One key concern at...

What impact will recently arrived refugees have on the labour markets of receiving European countries?

This article provides the first-ever analysis of the structure of public preferences for asylum and refugee policy, a highly politicized...

Combining industry-level patenting and migration data from 32 European countries, we show that emigration positively contributes to innovation...

Political trust matters for citizens’ policy preferences but existing research has not yet considered whether this effect depends on how...

Abstract Debates on the extent to which developing countries suffer from a brain drain often focus on the emigration of locally scarce health...

Abstract Tackling the root causes of migration from developing countries through development cooperation has been suggested as an essential...

Immigration has been considered critical for the emergence of a new cleavage in the European Union that pits the winners of globalisation...

Abstract What preferences do people have for cooperation between high and lower-income countries on irregular migration and refugee...