This handbook collects 28 research essays focusing on ＂frontier issues＂ of the economics of migration. It covers such topics as: the determinants of migration, including natural disasters,
refugee and asylum seeking, child labor migration, human smuggling, and labor mobility in the European Union; consequences of migration for happiness, obesity, religiosity, crime, citizenship
ascension, ethnic hiring, employment in risky occupation, occupational sorting, and migrant educational mismatch; empirical economic findings on issues of ethnicity and integration, such as
immigrant entrepreneurship, inter-ethnic marriages, and immigrants’ time use; and policy issues associated with such issues as the impact of migration on the stay-behind family, immigrant
selection by visa category, circular migration, disapora policies, evaluation techniques for migration policies, and the political economy of migration. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc.,
Portland, OR (protoview.com)
