The World Bank’s annual World Development Reports (WDRs) are staples of the global community’s reservoir of knowledge and data about key development issues. The 2023 edition discusses migration, one of the world’s most important and pressing challenges.

The Refugee Council of Australia has developed these core policy principles by working alongside key organisations involved in the development of complementary migration pathways for refugees and others in humanitarian need.

The authors of this report begin by describing the current U.S. labor market context, noting the important distortions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and their relationship to the immigrant workforce. They also present their detailed framework - the Occupational Opportunity Network, and offer some practical policy applications.

The objective of this audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Home Affairs' management of family-related visas.

Around 170,000 people are estimated to have permission to remain in the United Kingdom on a ’10-year route to settlement’ - a pathway that requires them to accrue 10 years of continuous lawful residence before they can apply for indefinite leave to remain. In this report, the authors take stock of the impacts of the...