This paper examines the impact of the 2016 UK referendum and expecting Brexit on migration flows and net migration in the UK. We employ a Difference-in-Differences strategy and compare EU migration to non-EU migration before and immediately after the UK referendum of June 2016. We also...

Climate disasters raise the salience of climate change’s negative consequences, including climate-induced migration. Policy action to address climate displacement is especially contentious in the U.S., where weak support for tackling climate change intersects with high opposition to...

The economic consequences of migration are hotly debated and a main topic of recent political movements across Europe. We analyze Polish immigration in the context of the 2004 enlargement of the European Union and find a positive and significant spillover effect of the immigrants on the number...

This paper theoretically explores regional firms’ competition in attracting mobile workers under spending cost to evaluate workers’ skills. Using the tax competition literature, we construct a two-region model that expenses on evaluation increase the regional firm productivity. The model...

The end of free movement and the introduction of the post-Brexit migration system represents a major structural change to the UK labour market. We provide a descriptive assessment of the impact on a sectoral basis. We examine how overall labour force growth has differed between sectors, both...

Long-standing studies of the late-glacial European Sand Belt (ESB) have proven that its development was associated with degradation of permafrost and the widespread incision of rivers. Fluvioglacial, fluvial and limnic sediments were considered to be the sources of sand for dune fields in this...

Despite pro-migration rhetoric of post-pandemic Australia, migrant workers complain continued discrimination and exploitation in the Australian job market. An online survey and in-depth interviews were conducted from July to September 2022. A total of 1,002 survey responses and 65 in-depth...

Using administrative data on the globally connected super-rich in the UK, we study the effect of a large tax reform on migration behaviour. Prior to 2017, offshore investment returns for 'non-doms' - individuals tax-resident in the UK but with connections to other countries – were untaxed....

This report highlights the significant impact of climate change on migration patterns and the need for Korea to prepare for the influx of climate migrants. While natural disasters have historically caused population displacement, the effects of climate change-induced slow-onset changes, such as...

Irregular migration from West Africa to Europe across the Sahara and Mediterranean is extremely risky for migrants and a key policy concern. A cluster-randomized experiment with 3,641 young men from 391 settlements in The Gambia is used to test three approaches to reducing risky migration:...