OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers
This series is designed to make available to a wider readership selected labour market, social policy and migration studies prepared for use within the OECD. Authorship is usually collective, but principal writers are named. The papers are generally available only in their original language - English or French - with a summary in the other.
- ISSN: 1815199X (online)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/1815199X
Trend in International Migration Flows and Stocks,1975-2005
This paper discusses broad trends in the rates and levels of international migration over the past three
decades, the places that migrants leave from and the destinations they choose; and some of the
demographic and policy implications of these trends. It raises some features of international mobility
trends over the past three decades that are, superficially, somewhat contradictory: stable rates of emigration
but growing numbers of emigrants; and an apparent dynamism in the flow but a stable concentration of
migrants going to more developed nations. On the one hand, these facts can be somewhat simply resolved
by reference to the demographic divide between the less and more developed world. On the other hand,
these facts hold implications for the past and future impacts of admission policies on international
mobility.
JEL:
F22: International Economics / International Factor Movements and International Business / International Migration;
J61: Labor and Demographic Economics / Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers / Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers;
O15: Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth / Economic Development / Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration;
J11: Labor and Demographic Economics / Demographic Economics / Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts;
N3: Economic History / Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy
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