International Migration and Economic Development: Lessons from Low-Income Countries

by Robert E.B. Lucas

Book Overview

Amidst mounting global policy attention directed toward international migration, this book offers an exhaustive review of the issues and evidence linking economic development in low-income countries with their migration experiences. The diversity of outcomes is explored in the context of; migration from East Europe and from the Maghreb to the EU; contract labor from South Asia in the Persian Gulf; highly skilled migrants moving to North America; and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845423836
• ISBN13: 9781845423834
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 384 Pages