Equipping Immigrants: Migration Flows and Capital Movements Both policy makers and researchers have devoted considerable attention in recent years to the large current account and capital account imbalances among OECD countries. In particular, the size of the United States current account deficit has attracted intense attention and spawned numerous explanations. There are undoubtedly many reaso...

Dimensional Discrepancies Overrolling of Debris Corrosion Other Fatigue Absrrucr-The development of an in-line, full flow oil debris sensor for aircraft engine condition assessment is described. First used on the F22 fighter, this sensor is the only “ all-metals” debris detector in production. The sensor is based on an inductive measurement technique which enables the system to detect, count an...

Immigrant Performance and Selective Immigration Policy: A European Perspective The European Union aims at a stronger participation by its population in work to foster growth and welfare. There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labour force, and discussions about the necessary policy responses. Integrated labour and migration policies are needed. The employment chances of th...

Intergenerational Education Mobility among the Children of Canadian Immigrants We analyze the intergenerational education mobility of Canadian men and women born to immigrants. A detailed portrait of Canadians is offered, as are estimates of the degree of generational mobility among the children of immigrants. Persistence in the years of schooling across the generations is rather weak between i...

Welfare Participation by Immigrants in the UK Welfare participation is an important indicator of how successfully immigrants perform in the host country. This paper examines this issue for the UK, which has experienced a large growth in its immigrant flows and population levels in recent years, especially following EU enlargement in 2004. The analysis focuses in particular on the types of benef...

This paper recovers the distribution of wages for Mexican-born workers living in the U.S. if no return migration of Mexican-born workers occurred. Because migrants self-select in the decision to return, the overarching problem addressed by this study is the use of an estimator that also accounts for selection on unobservables. I find that Mexican returnees are middleto high-wage earners at all ...

This paper studies the link between migration, remittances and productive assets accumulation for a panel of poor rural households in Mexico over the period 19972006. In a context of financial markets imperfections, migration may act as a substitute for imperfect credit and insurance provision (through remittances from migrants) and, thus, exert a positive effect on investment. However, it may ...

Despite the predictions of standard trade theory, countries in the North are not indifferent between free migration and free trade. Explanations include the redistributive policies of the welfare state (Wellisch and Walz, 1998, this Review). This paper offers an explanation using the concept of social capital and extends the analysis to the South. The movement of people differs from the movemen...

Global Aging and Fiscal Policy with International Labor Mobility: A Political Economy Perspective This paper uses an overlapping generations model with international labor mobility and a politically responsive fiscal policy to examine aging in developed and developing regions. Migrant workers change the political structure composed of young and elderly voters in both labor-receiving and labor-s...

A two-country, game-theoretic framework focuses on the nexus between human capital formation and international migration in an enlarged framework where distinctive brain drain and/or gain effects can arise from the option to study either at home, or abroad. Heterogeneous individuals choose between alternative university systems based, among other considerations, on their innate abilities, the q...