list of all NORFACE projects on migration
As transportation and communication costs decline and the income gap
between sending and receiving countries remains large, migration
pressure in Europe is likely to increase in the near future, and
temporary and return migration will become an even more widespread
phenomenon. The TEMPO research project will extend the frontier of
knowledge on this important issue along several directions. First of
all, using an array of existing and new datasets, it will look at the
causes and consequences of temporary migration, considering both the
perspective of the source and the destination country. Second, it will
study the patterns of integration of economic and non-economic
migrants, and how they relate to the time dimension of the migration
decision. Particular attention will be paid to the role played by the
diffusion of information within immigrant networks. Finally, the
project will look at the process through which policies towards
temporary and return migration are formed, and analyze their welfare
effects both on the destination and the source countries.
Principal Investigator:
Professor Giovanni Facchini, Centre for Economic Policy Research