Higher-income countries are aging at unprecedented rates, creating skills shortages in critical sectors ranging from healthcare to construction to information technology. At the same time, many lower-income...
Youth is a period of transition, open to the future and to possibilities. Yet, for migrants and non-migrants alike, this period is now taking place against a backdrop of high unemployment, underemployment...
The Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development (KNOMAD) is a global hub of knowledge and policy expertise on migration and development. KNOMAD is supported by a multi-donor trust fund established...
The COVID-19 outbreak and the lockdown that followed led up to extreme tumultuous economic and administrative conditions in countries across the world. Needless to say, the vulnerable sections of the population...
Remittances remain a crucial source of external finance for low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In 2023, remittance flows to LMICs were supported by strong labor markets in the advanced economies...
The remittance flows to low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) increased by an estimated 3.8 percent in 2023. This represents a slowdown in growth after the sharp increases in 2021–2022. The remittance...
The COVID-19 outbreak and the lockdown that followed led up to extreme tumultuous economic and administrative conditions in countries across the world. Needless to say, the vulnerable sections of the population...
Climate change is expected to have significant impacts on human population dynamics around the world, including on migration systems. The empirical evidence on climate-induced migration has expanded rapidly...
Climate change is expected to have significant impacts on human population dynamics around the world, including on migration systems. The empirical evidence on climate-induced migration has expanded rapidly...
This migration and development brief describes key developments in remittance flows that have occurred since the previous brief, published in November 2022. Projections of remittance trends in 2023 are...
Labour migration policies in destination countries frequently consider and facilitate the immigration of highly skilled workers. Low-skilled migrant workers may experience greater challenges in labour...
A concern with internal displacement is increasingly evident across the main international regimes that are relevant to conflict and disasters. Each of these five regimes focuses on responding to different...
The objective of the Nepal Cost of Migration Survey 2022-23 will be to estimate various migration worker related characteristics, which in turn will assist to produce the statistics needed to calculate...
The objective of the Nepal Cost of Migration Survey 2022-23 will be to estimate various migration worker related characteristics, which in turn will assist to produce the statistics needed to calculate...
The world is facing the largest crisis in forced displacement since the end of the second world war. Women and girls now account for more than half of all forcibly displaced people, comprising refugees...
This migration and development brief describes key developments in migration and remittance flows, and related policy and regulatory changes that have occurred since the previous brief, published in May...
With a total of 272 million migrants worldwide in 2019, the world has seen an absolute increase in their flows over the past decades. Today, more than half of such flows are composed of movements between...
This policy brief calls for the design of third-generation monitoring schemes that would produce longitudinal data that go beyond 3 years upon return of the migrant. Longitudinal studies can offer new...
The objective of this paper is to design a methodology for a longitudinal study on reintegration outcomes for returnees. A longitudinal study involves a methodology that allows the same variables to be...
Migration data, broken down by gender, allow us to gain a better handle on how gender affects the many dimensions of migration, and policymakers to begin to identify and address systematic gender inequalities...