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Agnès Bénassy-Quéré |
Director, CEPII |
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John West |
Head of the Public Affairs Division, OECD |
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Introduction |
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| Trends and Main Challenges of Current Migration |
Jean-Pierre Garson |
Head of the International Migration Division, OECD |
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| Gilles Spielvogel |
OECD |
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| Session I - Impact of Migration on Host Countries |
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Sébastien Jean |
Senior Scientist, UMR INRA Agro Paris Tech; Scientific Advisor, CEPII |
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Migration and the Labour Market |
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The Aggregate Effects of Immigration
in Spain |
Juan F. Jimeno |
Economist, Banco de Espana |
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| Migration and Wage-Setting: Reassessing the Labour Market Effects of Migration |
Herbert Brücker |
Economist, IAB; University of Nuremberg |
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| The Integration of Migrants into the Irish Labour Market |
Alan Barrett |
Senior Research Officer, Economic & Social Research Institute, Dublin |
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Debate introduced by |
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Thomas Liebig |
Economist, International Migration Division, OECD |
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General Debate |
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10:45 |
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Immigration, Ageing and Social Welfare |
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11:30 |
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| International Migration and the Welfare State |
Assaf Razin |
Professor, Tel Aviv University/Cornell University |
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| Macroeconomic Consequences of Global Migration in an Ageing World: a General Equilibrium Analysis |
Xavier Chojnicki |
Economist, CEPII; EQUIPPE, University of Lille II |
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General Debate |
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12:10 |
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| Session II - Migration Policy and Development |
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14:00 |
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Michel Beine |
Professor, University of Luxembourg |
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| Immigration Policy: Permanent, Guest Worker or Mode 4 |
Maurice Schiff |
Lead Economist, International Trade Unit, World Bank |
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Migration Transitions and the Migration Hump:
a Theoritical Inquiry and Empirical Test |
Hein de Haas |
Senior Research Officer, IMI; University of Oxford |
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Debate introduced by |
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Catherine Wihtol de Wenden |
Senior Research Fellow, CNRS-CERI |
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Jean-Pierre Garson |
Head of the International Migration Division, OECD |
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General Debate |
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15:05 |
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| Session III - Migration, Remittances and Development in Origin Countries |
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16:00 |
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David Khoudour-Castéras |
Economist, CEPII |
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| Are Remittances More Effective than Aid to Improve Child Health? An Empirical Assessment Using Inter and Intra-Country Data |
Flore Gubert |
Research Fellow, IRD-DIAL, Paris |
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Main Motivations of Remittance
in the Mediterranean Basin: Results of a New Survey |
El Mouhoub Mouhoud |
Professor, University of Paris Dauphine |
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International Migration, Transfers
of Norms and Home Country Fertility |
Michel Beine |
Professor, University of Luxembourg |
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General Debate |
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17:05 |
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