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Terminated in academic year 2023/2024

Economics of migration

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 114-0487/01
Abbreviation EMI
Course title Economics of migration
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Economics
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Jaromír Gottvald, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1. Migration economics, introduction, trends and concepts applied in it 2. Determinants of migration 3. Selectivity in migration 4. Adaptation and integration of immigrants; second and third generation in society 5. Labor market differences by ethnicity, discrimination 6. Immigration impacts 7. Wider influence of immigration on the economy; international migration and globalization 8. Immigration policy 9. Diversity - impact of labor diversity on companies and economies 10. Emigration and source countries, brain drain and brain drain, remittance 11. Social mobility

Literature

BANSAK, C., SIMPSON, N.B. and M. ZAVODNY: Economics of Immigration, First Edition, Routledge. ISBN 978-0415747066. DUSTMANN, Ch, FRATTINI, T. and A. ROSSO (2015) "The Effect of Emigration from Poland on Polish Wages". Scandinavian Journal of Economics Vol 117 (2), pp. 522-564.

Advised literature

NATHAN, M. (2014): The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants: a survey of literature for receiving countries. IZA Journal of Migration 2014, 3:4. PEDERSEN, J. P., PYTLIKOVA, M. and N. SMITH (2008): "Selection and Network Effects - Migration Flows into OECD Countries 1990-2000". European Economic Review. Vol. 52 (7), pp. 1160-1186.