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Carlos Vargas-Silva |
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Short Bio Carlos Vargas-Silva is affiliated with Sam Houston State University where he teaches statistical methods to business students. He is also a research officer at the International Migration Institute, University of Oxford, where he works in the Global Migration Futures Project. In this project he is interested in assessing the future global and regional migration trends with an emphasis in indentifying the impact of future expected and unexpected changes in economic, environmental, demographic and political factors on the future flow of migrants from developing to developed countries. His other research interests include the link between economic development and migration with a special focus on the role migrants’ remittances. One strand of his research examines the relationship between remittances and the macroeconomic variables of the remittance receiving countries. Another analyzes the impact of demographic factors on the amounts remitted. Vargas-Silva is a member of the common room of Kellogg College at Oxford and previously he was a George Washington Henderson Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Vermont. Dr. Vargas-Silva has an educational background in economics and quantitative methods. |
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Contact Information: International Migration Institute Telephone: +44 (0) 1865 281835 Email: carlos.vargas-silva@qeh.ox.ac.uk |
