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CReAM Researchers find that Immigration helps average UK wages but holds back wages of the least well paid.
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Article in Guardian by CReAM Research Fellow

Stephen Machin argues that his previous research is being wrongly used to validate the Coalition's academy programme.

NORFACE Compact Series - Launched

NORFACE Research programme on Migration has launched the first edition of NORFACE Compact Series.  For more information about the articles included in this edition, check the NORFACE Compact Page on the NORFACE Migration Website.

NORFACE Migration

CReAM collaborates with the NORFACE Programme on Migration. Check out NORFACE publications and activities on migration.

New CReAM Comment

Ian Preston comments on the debate on attitudes to immigration.

New MAC Report

CReAM researchers contribute to the latest report of the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) Analysis of the Impacts of Migration.

New Discussion Papers in CReAM DP Series:

14/12 Do Migrant Girls Always Perform Better? Differences between the Reading and Math Scores of 15-Year-Old Daughters and Sons of Migrants in PISA 2009 and Variations by Region of Origin and Country of DestinationNils Kornder and Jaap Dronkers.

13/12 Immigrants’ Children Scientific Performance in a Double Comparative Design: The Influence of Origin, Destination, and CommunityJ. Dronkers and M. de Heus.

12/12 Immigrant Pupils’ Scientific Performance: The Influence of Educational System Features of Origin and Destination CountriesJ. Dronkers, M. de Heus and M. Levels.

New Discussion Paper in NORFACE DP Series

2012-17 Dynamics of Educational Differences in Emigration from Estonia to the Old EU Member States. Kristi Anniste, Enel Pungas, Tiit Tammaru, Tiiu Paas.

2012-16 Asylum Policy in the EU: The Case for Deeper Integration. Timothy J Hatton.

2012-15 Peer Effects on Criminal Behavior. Evidence from the homeless. Lucia Corno.

New External CReAM Fellows

Jaap Dronkers

Delia Furtado

Erwin Tiongson

New CReAM Affiliates

Mariola Pytlikova

Simonetta Longhi

Catia Batista

CReAM Visitors

Nishith Prakash - 25 - 29 Jun 2012

Mette Foged - 16 Jan - 15 May 2012

Celia Badillo Bautista - 7 Sep 2011 - 31 May 2012

Kari Salvanes - 5 Sep 2011 - 6 Jul 2012

Marco Hafner - Jun 2011 onwards

CReAM Previous Events:

Norface Migration Network Conference on "Migration: Economic Change, Social Challenge"

was organised as part of the Migration Week at UCL, University College London, April 4-9, 2011. Photographs and Recordings of key lectures available now.

"Migration, Development, and Global Issues"

Conference jointly organised by Norface Migration Programme, World Bank and CReAM, University College London, September 23-25, 2010.

Final Conference of the TOM Network: "Transnationality of Migrants"

Venice, September 16 - 18, 2010

Invited Lecture by George Borjas and Eric Gould on "The Self Selection of Immigrants"

at the 3rd EALE/SOLE World Conference, University College London, June 17, 2010.

3rd EALE-SOLE world Conference

University College London, June 17 - 19, 2010.

Workshop of the NORFACE Programme on Migration

University College London, March 25 - 27, 2010.

Public Lecture - Prof Gordon Hanson: "Managing Immigration Policy in High Income Countries"

London, March 23, 2010.

Final AGF Workshop "The Economics and Politics of Employment, Migration and Social Justice"

London, May 22-23, 2009.

The Economics of Immigration: Children of Immigrants and Temporary Migration

Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 11-12, 2009, Pictures.

XXII Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics

London, UK Pictures.

Conference on
Immigration: Impacts, Integration and Intergenerational Issues

University College London (UCL),
29 to 31 March 2006.

Links to websites with information on migration

European Migration Information Network (EMIN)

Based in the Migration Research Unit (MRU) at UCL, it also provides a web-based system to quickly locate useful data related to migration issues.

The Economics and Politics of Employment, Migration and Social Justice

Anglo German Foundation Project coordinated by Prof. Christian Dustman, University College London

Migration Research Unit (MRU)

The Migration Research Unit is based in the Department of Geography at University College London. It carries out high quality research on international population migration issues.

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

See especially their section with statistics and reports on “International Migration“.

Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

The website of this German think-tank hosts a database for literature on migration. There is also a long list of many further links to research centres and organizations whose work is on migration issues.

Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

This think-tank based in Washington D.C. also runs the “Migration Information Source”: a very useful tool to quickly retrieve data on various aspects of the topic of migration.

United Nations

EUROSTAT

EUROSTAT also provide data on topics related to migration and asylum, in particular under the heading “People in Europe.”

International Organization for Migration (IOM)

Leading international organization whose scope also touches the effects of migration in Europe.

European Migration Centre (EMZ)

The EMZ aims at linking European institutions working on migration issues. It also runs an extensive literature database and statistics on migration topics.