Tag Archives: mobility
The global network of transnational mobility
Le réseau mondial de mobilité transnationale
Ettore Recchi, Emanuel Deutschmann, Michele Vespe
Ettore Recchi, Emanuel Deutschmann and Maxime Chabriel have recently created a dataset to estimate international mobility (border crossing), on the basis of global statistics on tourism and air passenger traffic. More than 15 billion trips were counted in the years between 2011 and 2016, and the tendency is upward.
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Low migrant death rates: actual or artefactual?
Faible mortalité des immigrés: réalité ou artéfact ?
Matthew Wallace
The mortality of immigrants, even those from poor countries, is lower than that of natives, even in rich receiving countries. In this article, Matthew Wallace examines whether this advantage is real or a data artefact.
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Global family change: persistent diversity with development
Évolutions de la famille liée au développement économique : peu de convergence en vue
Luca Maria Pesando
Decades of sweeping demographic, economic, and social change have radically transformed structures, gender roles, and intergenerational bonds of families worldwide, initially in high‐income countries (HICs), and more recently in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs).
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The ‘Healthy Immigrant Effect’: the role of educational selectivity
« L’effet de l’immigrant en bonne santé » : le rôle de la sélection par le niveau d’instruction
Mathieu Ichou, Matthew Wallace
Public interest in migration has intensified in recent times, and restrictive policies are gaining increasing political support. These are often based on misconceptions, such as migrants being responsible for spreading diseases and costing too much to the healthcare system.
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Malthus, forever?
Malthus, toujours d’actualité ?
Massimo livi Bacci
Malthus is long dead, but his ideas live on and are still widely debated today. Massimo Livi Bacci argues that he was probably right, after all. Malthus and the limits to growth Concise and clear, Malthus wrote in the first chapter of his Essay: “Through the animal and vegetable kingdoms, nature has scattered the seeds
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The impact of transportation infrastructures on growth and development
L’impact des infrastructures de transport sur la croissance et le développement
Bishal Bhakta Kasu, Guangqing Chi
In developing economies, transportation infrastructures are considered a growth factor. But is this still true when the economy matures? Bishal Kasu and Guangqing Chi answer this question using recent (1970–2010) county-level data in the continental United States.
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All U.S. states are becoming more racially diverse… for now
La diversité ethnique augmente dans tous les états des États-Unis
Barrett A. Lee, Michael J.R. Martin, Stephen A. Matthews, Chad R. Farrell
Universal patterns or trends are rare in demographic research. Yet we have uncovered one: since 1980, all 50 U.S. states have become more ethnically and racially diverse (Lee et al. 2017).
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Migration reduces climate risk for many but not for all
La migration réduit le risque climatique (mais pas pour tous)
Martina Grecequet, Jessica Hellmann
As the consequences of climate change accumulate, many experts expect to see migration away from the world’s most impacted regions as people seek a climate and an economy that better sustains human life. This will add to migratory movements caused by other more traditional reasons:
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Immigrant receptivity and local area unemployment in the U.S.
Chômage et perception des immigrés à l’échelle locale aux États-Unis
Gordon F. De Jong, Deborah R. Graefe, Chris Galvan, Stephanie Howe Hasanali
Recent political events in many countries have made it clear that the receptivity of immigrants by destination area citizens is a contentious issue. Natives in arrival countries have demonstrated both hostile and welcoming attitudes and behavior
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Think race and ethnicity are permanent? Think again
Surprise! Race et appartenance ethnique changent au fil du temps
Carolyn A. Liebler, Sonya R. Porter, Leticia E. Fernandez, James M. Noon, Sharon R. Ennis
Add something else to the list of things that seem simple but are actually complicated – the way someone reports their race or ethnicity. In a recently-published research article (Liebler et al. 2017), we used a large, unique linked dataset from two U.S. Censuses
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Teenage immigrants fare worse than younger immigrants in Norway
Les migrants adolescents réussissent moins bien que les migrants plus jeunes en Norvège
Are Skeie Hermansen
Immigration during childhood represents an important turning point for future developmental trajectories, and the timing of this event (i.e., age at arrival) has an impact on later-life educational success and economic opportunities (Hermansen, 2017). About 15 percent of the world’s migrants are under the age of 20. That is almost 37 million people according to
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The demography of Trump’s wall
Le mur de Trump et ses conséquences démographiques
Dudley L. Poston jr., Peter A. Morrison
A major feature of the presidential campaign of Donald Trump was his pledge to build a wall on the southern border of the United States that would stop once and forever the “illegal” migration of Mexicans and others from Central America. He told his supporters that Mexico would pay for the wall. But he has
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The economic and fiscal impact of immigration in the US
L’impact économique et fiscal de l’immigration aux États-Unis
Francine D. Blau, Christopher Mackie
More than 40 million people living in the United States were born in other countries, and almost an equal number have at least one foreign-born parent. Together, immigrants and their children comprise almost one in four Americans. Not only does immigration affect the environment in which everyone lives, learns, and works, but it also interacts
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Are population policies effective?
Les politiques démographiques sont-elles efficaces ?
Jacques Vallin
Let us look at four types of objective that can legitimize population policies in a given context: reducing mortality (Vallin et Meslé, 2006), limiting fertility if the population is growing too quickly (Locoh et Vandermersch, 2006), or encouraging it if the opposite is true (De Santis, 2006), and controlling migration (Baldi et Cagiano de Azevedo,
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African migration: is the continent really on the move?*
La migration africaine: s’agit-il vraiment d’un « continent en mouvement » ?*
Marie-Laurence Flahaux, Hein de Haas
General trends and directions of African migration African migration is often perceived as massive and increasing, mainly directed toward Europe, and driven by poverty and violence (Lessault and Beauchemin 2009).
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Des projections démographiques jusqu’en 2100… Est-ce bien raisonnable?
Demographic projections up to 2100 … Do they make sense?
Henri Leridon
En économie, il est rare que l’on se hasarde à des prévisions au-delà de quelques années. Il n’y a guère que les climatologues pour faire tourner des modèles sur 100 ans
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