Interview | Hippolyte d’Albis and Patrick Simon

In this brand new video format, Hippolyte d’Albis and Patrick Simon share their analysis and answer questions related to migration flows, including preconceived notions, observations, developments, and the impact of the health crisis on these flows.

Hippolyte d’Albis is an economist, specializing in demographic issues. He’s a senior researcher at CNRS, specialized in economic demography. He is also professor at Paris School of Economics, director of the Graduate School of Demography, president of the Cercle des économistes, director of the French team of the National Transfer Accounts network, co-director of the French Regional Database, associate editor of the Journal of Demographic Economics and the Journal of the Economics of Ageing and member of the editorial advisory board of the Public Finance Review.

Patrick Simon is a French socio-demographer at the National Institute for Demographic Studies (INED). He works on the phenomena of integration and ethnic discrimination in France and in international comparative perspectives.
He is a member of the editorial boards of the journals Mouvements and Ethnic and Racial Studies. He is in charge of the “Integration and Discrimination” department at the Institut des Migrations.

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 Hippolyte d’Albis and Françoise Benhamou, 2022, Des économistes répondent aux populistes, Editions Odile Jacob

 Hippolyte d’Albis and Ekrame Boubtane, 2021, Les étudiants internationaux : des immigrés comme les autres ?, La vie des idées

 Hippolyte d’Albis, Ekrame Boubtane, and Dramane Coulibaly, 2018, “Macroeconomic evidence suggests that asylum seekers are not a “burden” for Western European countries”, Science Advances, 4 (6).

 Hippolyte d’Albis, Ekrame Boubtane, and Dramane Coulibaly. “Immigration Policy and Macroeconomic Performance in France”. Annals of Economics and Statistics, no. 121/122, 2016, pp. 279–308.

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