PSE Chaired professor and International Migration Economics Chair holder
Research Groups : Why Economists should care about international migration?By Hillel Rapoport
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International migration has major economic consequences for both sending and receiving countries. It influences the movement of goods, capital, and productive knowledge, as well as the way the global economy is structured. Economics, which models individual choices in particular, can be relevant for understanding the decision to migrate, the effects of immigration on attitudes in host countries, or for evaluating integration policies.
The issues at stake in the economic analysis of international migration are therefore not only economic, but also political, societal and cultural.
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Hillel Rapoport is professor at the Paris School of Economics and at the university Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He holds the International Migration Economics Chair and is also PSE’s director of International Relations. His research focuses on the links between migration and globalization and on the impact of migration on growth and development. He is also interested in economic history, political economy and the economics of immigration and diversity.