Title: The implications of growing economic interdependence.

POPLINE Document Number: 201295

Author(s):

Weintraub S
Stolp C

Source citation:

In: The future of migration. Paris, France, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1987. :137-67.

Abstract:

This paper examines the relationship between economic development and migratory flows. Empirical tests of economic and migration theory as applied to the experience of the US and Mexico are presented. Within the context of economic interdependence and migration the authors discuss international economics and migration, trade, capital flows, domestic economic policy in sending countries, world systems, statistical considerations, and economic migration. The authors propose a set of assumptions that can be the basis for speculation about future migration. There are 2 major conclusions with respect to economic speclation and formal modelling: 1) it is unwise to anticipate a significant easing of immigration pressure for at least the remainder of this century, and 2) the more favorable the setting, the more likely it is that emigration pressures will ease in the longer-term in advanced and developing countries.

Keywords:

United States
Mexico
Economic Development
International Migration
Commerce
Capital
Policy
Origin
Destination
Information
Migrants
Developed Countries
North America
Americas
North America
Latin America
Developing Countries
Economic Factors
Migration
Population Dynamics
Demographic Factors
Population
Macroeconomic Factors