NTA and Migration Working Group

Many of the countries we work in are experiencing historically large migration flows, whether those countries are seeing large outflows or inflows of persons, and whether those flows are driven by labor market opportunities or other factors. Often, those flows have a distinct age pattern, as those in their working ages are the most likely to migrate. The age-dependent nature of many migration flows means that NTA's focus on age patterns of economic activity may have a unique way of understanding the economics of migration flows.

The goal of this working group is to develop a set of NTA-based analysis tools that can help quantify the many impacts of migration on sending or receiving countries, and can serve as a way to model the impacts of migration shocks or migration-related policy changes.

Coordinators: Jorge Bravo, formerly of UN DESA, currently an independent consultant affiliated with the Center for the Economics and Demography of Aging at UC Berkeley Gretchen Donehower, Academic Specialist with the Center for the Economics and Demography of Aging at UC Berkeley, and the Secretary/Treasurer of the NTA Association

MEETING MINUTES - Workshop, March 11, 2025, NTA15 Conference, Bangkok

• Publication List
  • Please feel free to edit, add new entries or provide details/specs on existing ones. I think it would be best/most efficient to consider this as a selective (not exhaustive, by any means) list of published and unpublished research directly relevant to the area noted above. I would prioritize work by NTA members and by others closely in line with NTA methods; at minimum, I would say research that uses age-disaggregated profiles of migrants and non-migrants, their educational level, income, tax payments and consumption of public benefits.

• Data Inventory
  • I integrated the information collected last February through a brief questionnaire to NTA members; the responses received are in this file: Migration Data Survey To which I added select multi-national micro-data sources, including the IPUMS, DHS, MICS and EU-SILC programs. As for the previous list, feel free to correct any mistakes, add other key sources, add missing information in the existing entries (e.g., on references, whether data is publicly available, and if so, where to find it, etc.).