Migration and Economic Development

Klaus F. Zimmermann Migration has become a topic of substantial interest in Europe in recent years. Part of this interest is driven by the important political changes in East Europe and the potential threat of large East-West migration waves. However, due

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Editorial Board John Ermisch Bengt-Arne Wickstrom Klaus F. Zimmermann

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Migration and Economic Development With 10 Figures

Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg GmbH

Professor Dr. Klaus F. Zimmermann Universităt MUnchen Seminar fUr Arbeits- und Bev61kerungsokonomie Ludwigstr. 28 RG W-8000 MUnchen 22, FRG

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Preface

Klaus F. Zimmermann

Migration has become a topic of substantial interest in Europe in recent years. Part of this interest is driven by the important political changes in East Europe and the potential threat of large East-West migration waves. However, due to the large differences in economic development a substantial migration pressure is also expected from the South of Europe as of other parts of the world. The global migration potential towards the higher developed areas has reached about 80 to 100 million people. Thereof, about 60 million would like to move permanently, 20 million temporarily and about 15 million are refugees

and

asylum

seekers

and

approximately

30

million

are

iIIegals. The book consists of eight papers which are allocated to five parts: Theoretical Models (Part I), Performance of Migrants (Part 11), Migration Within Developing Countries (Part IV) and Immigration Policy (Part V)' Each paper begins with a brief summary of its content. Part I, Theoretical Models, contains first "A Microeconomic

VI

Zlmm.r-mann

Model of Migration" by Siegfried Berninghaus Seifert-Vogt. incomplete

They

study

information

migration

and

apply

and

decision

it

to

Hans-GUnther making

empirically

under relevant

phenomena. The second paper by Gerhard Schmitt-Rink "Migration and

International

Factor

Price

Equalization"

demonstrates

that

international