population, migration and the politometric evidence

Dear colleagues,

the  ongoing debate on the wsn network should not overlook the politometric
evidence existing on the subject. For a survey, please consult:

http://csf.colorado.edu/wsystems/archive/books/tausch/tauschtoc.htm


especially Chapter X of the Globalization & Europ Integration book, on
Migration and Globalization

as well as my earlier writings on the subject:

1991 'Jenseits der Weltgesellschaftstheorien. Sozialtransformationen und der
Paradigmenwechsel in der Entwicklungsforschung'. Grenzen und Horizonte (Eds.
G. AMMON, H. REINWALD, H.A. STEGER) Eberhard, Muenchen (second printing),
ISBN 3-926777-26-5, Chapter V, which is based on a multiple regression
analysis of the World Bank data tape

1993 'Towards a Socio - Liberal Theory of World Development' Basingstoke and
New York: Macmillan/St. Martin's Press (under collaboration of Fred Prager),
ISBN 0-333-54895-7, Chapter VII, which is based on path analysis of World
Bank, ILO and other data

No one is prohibited from inventing the wheel again, but these debates might
be helpful in formulating the arguments in a more quantitative fashion. 

The 'beef' of these arguments is that an early demographic transition
favours re-distribution and encourages steps away from the extensive
development model, already analysed by Jose Carlos Mariategui at the
beginning of the last Century. It also turns out that migration benefits the
centers and not the semi-peripheries and peripheries, but that income
inequality increases in the centers due to the increase in the labor supply.
A policy, aiming at rapidly integrating the immigrant population could
counteract these tendencies.

Populists here on this side of the Atlantic and propositionists over the Big
Pot got it all wrong, therefore.

Kindest regards

Arno Tausch,
Associate Visiting Professor of Political Science
Former Counsellor of Labor and Migration
Austrian Embassy Warsaw



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for Migration Studies in New York and the other following internet
ressources:

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/Winter97-98/articles/wantto1.htm

http://home.earthlink.net/~monicaberger/immigration.html

http://www.cis.org/

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In addition, I recommend any of the writings of

Jeffrey Williamson

Related Links
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees [http://www.unhcr.ch/]

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Worldwide Virtual Library on Migration and Ethnic Relations
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