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4th Norface Migration Network Conference on "Migration: Global Development, New Frontiers"

was held at University College London, April 10-13, 2013. Among the highlights were policy events, academic podia, invited lectures and keynote speech. Video coverage and photographs now available.

Bulgarian and Romanian immigration

The Report on BBC Radio 4 discusses migration forecasts from new EU accession countries.

BBC News Channel interview

See a longer version here.

CReAM Research on BBC News

A BBC news report entitled David Cameron talks tough over European migrants' benefits cites CReAM research showing that UK immigrants from Central and Eastern Europe are less likely to be on welfare and more likely to work than the native population.

Politicians misinterpreted immigration forecast

CReAM research that had predicted that opening UK borders to 10 new EU countries in 2004 would increase the population by 13,000 a year has been misinterpreted by MPs says Prof Christian Dustmann.

The Myth of Immigrant Benefit-Claimants

CReAM Research on the fiscal impact of immigrants to the UK is cited in a recent blog by journalist Alex Massie. Read more on The Spectator website.

New Press Release

CReAM Researchers find that high emigration has led to better wages for many in Poland.
Read the Press Release.
Read the Discussion Paper.

NORFACE Migration

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

CReAM Visitors

Marco Hafner - Jun 2011 onwards

New Discussion Papers in CReAM DP Series:

11/13 Labor Market Laws and Intra-European Migration: The Role of the State in Shaping Destination Choices. John Palmer and Mariola Pytlikova.

10/13 Eliciting Illegal migration rates through list randomization. David McKenzie and Melissa Siegel.

09/13 Single-parenthood among migrant children: Determinants and consequences for educational performance. Jaap Dronkers and Matthijs Kalmijn.

New Discussion Paper in NORFACE DP Series:

2013-14  Is institutional trust related to the attitudes towards immigrants in Europe? A study of majority and minority population. Vivika Halapuu, Tiiu Paas and Tiit Tammaru.

2013-13  Do High-Income or Low-Income Immigrants Leave Faster? Govert E. Bijwaard and Jackline Wahba.

2013-12  Sorting out the impact of cultural diversity on innovative firms. An empirical analysis of Dutch micro-dataCeren Ozgen and Thomas de Graaff.

New External CReAM Fellows

The Rt Hon Charles Clarke

Alícia Adserà

Mary C. Waters

Jaap Dronkers

New CReAM Affiliates

Roland Rathelot

Mariola Pytlikova

Simonetta Longhi

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.

New External Research Fellows

October 2012

The Rt Hon Charles Clarke, Research Fellow
email: pearsonclarke@pavilion.co.uk

July 2012

Alícia Adserà, Research Fellow
email: adsera@princeton.edu

Mary C. Waters, Research Fellow
email: mcw@wjh.harvard.edu

April 2012

Jaap Dronkers, Research Fellow
email: j.dronkers@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Delia Furtado, Research Fellow
email: Delia.Furtado@uconn.edu

February 2012

Erwin Tiongson, Research Fellow
email: ertiongson@aim.com

January 2012

Pablo Mateos, Research Fellow
email: p.mateos@ucl.ac.uk

December 2011

Matti Sarvimäki, Research Fellow
email: matti.sarvimaki@vatt.fi

Jan Rose Skaksen, Research Fellow
email: jrs.eco@cbs.dk

Jackline Wahba, Research Fellow
email: j.wahba@soton.ac.uk

July 2011

Alejandro Portes, Research Fellow
email: port44@princeton.edu

April 2011

Douglas Massey, Research Fellow
email: dmassey@princeton.edu

Çaglar Ozden, Research Fellow
email: cozden@worldbank.org

Mark Rosenzweig, Research Fellow
email: mark.rosenzweig@yale.edu

Andreas Wimmer, Research Fellow
email: awimmer@Princeton.EDU

January 2011

Ravi Pendakur, Research Fellow
email: Pendakur@uottawa.ca

December 2010

Giovanni Facchini, Research Fellow
email: facchini@ese.eur.nl

Joop Hartog, Research Fellow
email: J.Hartog@uva.nl

September 2010

Jacob Vigdor, Research Fellow
email: jacob.vigdor@duke.edu

July 2010

Aimee Chin, Research Fellow
email: achin@uh.edu

James Nazroo, Research Fellow
email: James.Nazroo@manchester.ac.uk

June 2010

Michel Beine, Research Fellow
email: michel.beine@uni.lu

Eran Yashiv, Research Fellow
email: yashiv@post.tau.ac.il

May 2010

Frank Kalter, Research Fellow
email: kalter@uni-mannheim.de

February 2010

Martina Viarengo, Research Fellow
email: martina.viarengo@graduateinstitute.ch

November 2009

Daniel Miller, Research Fellow
email: d.miller@ucl.ac.uk

Patrick Puhani, Research Fellow
email: puhani@iza.org

October 2009

Jean-Christophe Dumont, Research Fellow
email: Jean-Christophe.DUMONT@oecd.org

Andrew Mountford, Research Fellow
email: a.mountford@rhul.ac.uk

Nishith Prakash, Research Fellow
email: nishith.prakash@uconn.edu

July 2009

David G. Blanchflower, Research Fellow
email: david.blanchflower@dartmouth.edu

May 2009

Chad Sparber, Research Fellow
email: csparber@mail.colgate.edu

April 2009

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Research Fellow
email: camuedod@mail.sdsu.edu

Antonio Spilimbergo, Research Fellow
email: aspilimbergo@imf.org

March 2009

Gordon Hanson, Research Fellow
email: gohanson@ucsd.edu

Darren Lubotsky, Research Fellow
email: lubotsky@illinois.edu

February 2009

Anders Böhlmark, Research Fellow
email: anders.bohlmark@sofi.su.se

January 2009

Olof Åslund, Research Fellow
email: olof.aslund@ifau.uu.se

October 2008

Javier Ortega, Research Fellow
email: Javier.Ortega@univ-tlse1.fr

Oddbjørn Raaum, Research Fellow
email: oddbjorn.raaum@frisch.uio.no

Yves Zenou, Research Fellow
email: yves.zenou@ifn.se

August 2008

Adriana Kugler, Research Fellow
email: adkugler@uh.edu

July 2008

David McKenzie, Research Fellow
email: dmckenzie@worldbank.org

June 2008

Abdurrahman B. Aydemir, Research Fellow
email: aaydemir@sabanciuniv.edu

May 2008

Miles Corak, Research Fellow
email: corak@iza.org

Sara de la Rica, Research Fellow
email: sara.delarica@ehu.es

Stephen Drinkwater, Research Fellow
email: S.J.Drinkwater@swansea.ac.uk

November 2007

Jennifer Hunt, Research Fellow
email: jennifer.hunt@mcgill.ca

October 2007

Arthur Sweetman, Research Fellow
email: arthur.sweetman@mcmaster.ca

June 2007

Bob Gregory, Research Fellow
email: bob.gregory@anu.edu.au

Giovanni Peri, Research Fellow
email: gperi@ucdavis.edu

Lucinda Platt, Research Fellow
email: l.platt@ioe.ac.uk

Jacques Poot, Research Fellow
email: jpoot@waikato.ac.nz

April 2007

Libertad González, Research Fellow
email: libertad.gonzalez@upf.edu

Francesc Ortega, Research Fellow
email: francesc.ortega@upf.edu

Gianmarco Ottaviano, Research Fellow
email: gianmarco.ottaviano@unibo.it

March 2007

Hoyt Bleakley, Research Fellow
email: bleakley@chicagogsb.edu

Rachel Friedberg, Research Fellow
email: Rachel_Friedberg@brown.edu

Ira Gang, Research Fellow
email: gang@economics.rutgers.edu

February 2007

Frédéric Docquier, Research Fellow
email: docquier@ires.ucl.ac.be

Daniele Paserman, Research Fellow
email: dpaserma@shum.huji.ac.il

Dean C. Yang, Research Fellow
email: deanyang@umich.edu

January 2007

Bernt Bratsberg, Research Fellow
email: bernt.bratsberg@frisch.uio.no

David Jaeger, Research Fellow
email: djaeger@gc.cuny.edu

Steven Stillman, Research Fellow
email: steven.stillman@otago.ac.nz

June 2006

Anna Piil Damm, Research Fellow
email: apd@asb.dk

Robert LaLonde, Research Fellow
email: rjlalond@uchicago.edu

May 2006

Patricia Cortes, Research Fellow
email: pcortes@bu.edu

Zvi Eckstein, Research Fellow
email: eckstein@post.tau.ac.il

Eric Gould, Research Fellow
email: mseric@mscc.huji.ac.il

Anna Maria Mayda, Research Fellow
email: amm223@georgetown.edu

Dan-Olof Rooth, Research Fellow
email: Dan-olof.Rooth@hik.se

April 2006

Paul Miller, Research Fellow
email: Paul.Miller@curtin.edu.au

Daniel Parent, Research Fellow
email: parent.daniel@hec.ca

Krishna Pendakur, Research Fellow
email: pendakur@sfu.ca

Stephen Trejo, Research Fellow
email: trejo@eco.utexas.edu

March 2006

Gil S. Epstein, Research Fellow
email: epsteig@mail.biu.ac.il

Richard Freeman, Research Fellow
email: rbfreeman@gmail.com

Xin Meng, Research Fellow
email: xin.meng@anu.edu.au

Hillel Rapoport, Research Fellow
email: hillel_rapoport@hks.harvard.edu

Yoram Weiss, Research Fellow
email: weiss@post.tau.ac.il

George J. Borjas, Research Fellow
email: gborjas@harvard.edu

David Card, Research Fellow
email: card@econ.berkeley.edu

Barry Chiswick, Research Fellow
email: brchis@uic.edu

Jack Citrin, Research Fellow
email: gojack@berkeley.edu

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Research Fellow
email: deborah.cobb-clark@anu.edu.au

Tim Hatton, Research Fellow
email: tim.hatton@anu.edu.au

Kevin Lang, Research Fellow
email: lang@bu.edu

Thomas Lemieux, Research Fellow
email: tlemieux@interchange.ubc.ca

Ethan Lewis, Research Fellow
email: ethan.g.lewis@dartmouth.edu

Michael Rendall, Research Fellow
email: Michael.Rendall@ons.gov.uk

Rubén G. Rumbaut, Research Fellow
email: rrumbaut@uci.edu

Michael Shields, Research Fellow
email: mshields@unimelb.edu.au

Nina Smith, Research Fellow
email: nis@adm.au.dk