Forecasting International Migration in Europe: A Bayesian View

• Main Author: Bijak, Jakub (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis, 24
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Statistics.; Emigration and immigration.; Demography.; Social Sciences.; Migration.; Statistical Theory and Methods.

International migration is becoming an increasingly important element of contemporary demographic dynamics and yet, due to its high volatility, it remains the most unpredictable element of population change. In Europe, population forecasting is especially difficult because good-quality data on migra...