Event
Date
07.04.2014
Schedule
3p.m. - 5p.m.
Location
M04, Amigos Building
Speaker
Oded Stark
COURSE: Advanced Perspectives in the Analytics and Policy Design of Migration
Schedule
Monday 7th April 3 p.m. – 5 p.m. 
Wednesday 9th April 3 p.m. – 5 p.m. 
Friday 11th April 3 p.m. – 5 p.m. 

Course objectives

International migration is one of the most exciting topics to explore in social science research. Why some people leave, why others stay, what are repercussions of migration for the sending and the receiving economies, for the migrants themselves, and for their families, are themes that invite disciplined inquiry. The main purpose of the course is to induce the participants to think rigorously, creatively, and in nonconventional ways on various approaches to the modeling of migration choices and consequences, and to demonstrate to the participants how such a thinking process could enrich the spectrum of informed migration policies. Following the course, the participants are expected to be more at ease with deciphering theoretical research on migration, and at engaging in such research themselves.


The course topics include

- Integration, social dismay, and policy responses
- A theory of migration as a response to relative deprivation
- A rationale for restrained assimilation
- A theory of assimilation and remittances
- A theory of migration as a response to occupational stigma
- Why do some migrants engage in degrading work?
- Relative poverty as a determinant of migration
- Migration networks
- A theory of seasonal migration
- The formation of human capital in anticipation of probable migration: analytics and policy design
- The prospect of migration and educated unemployment
- Differential migration prospects, skill formation, and welfare
- The formation of International migration policies when no country has an exclusive policy-setting say
- How incentive structures explain the economic performance of migrants
- The probability of return migration and migrants’ savings behavior
- Consequences of migration for the receiving country
 

Readings

The topics to be covered in the course will constitute a subset of the topics listed above, with the selection to depend on time availability and students’ responses. The listed topics are based on articles authored or co-authored by the lecturer. Most of these articles can be found here.

Speaker

Oded Stark is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Navarra Center for International Development. He holds professorships and distinguished appointments at the Universities of Bonn, Klagenfurt, Vienna, Tuebingen, Warsaw, and Georgetown. He has written on applied microeconomic theory, development economics, population economics, the economics of migration, labor economics, evolutionary economics, urban economics, regional economics, welfare economics, and the theory of the firm. Here is his profile.

 

 

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