Join the Migration Research Group in their upcoming lecture by CEU visiting professor Ljubica Nedelkoska, she will present her project “Diasporas and Development”.
Zoom link here.
Abstract / "Close to 300 million people today reside in countries in which they were not born, and migrants have been growing as a share of the world’s population for decades. I study the various mechanisms through which these migrant communities (diasporas) impact their home countries. In my talk I will focus on two studies, one for Albania and one for Colombia. The first study measures the impact of return migration from Greece to Albania on Albania’s economy, in the aftermath of the 2009 Greek sovereign debt crisis. The second one studies the characteristics that make a diaspora more likely to engage back home, and more likely to return. It introduces the largest diaspora survey known to us. Throughout the talk, I will elaborate on the aspects that make a diaspora well-positioned to contribute to the development of their home country, and the mechanisms through which a diaspora makes development happen."
Bio / Ljubica Nedelkoska is a visiting professor at Central European University, a senior research fellow at the Growth Lab at Harvard University, and a research scientist at the Complexity Science Hub in Vienna. Ljubica is a social scientist with a background in economics (PhD) and public administration (MA). She studies the impact of technology on the labor market, migration and diasporas. She is interested in development, labor economics, policy and economic sociology.