, we test whether and how much language proficiency determines migration flows across Europe. The European Union with …

This paper develops and estimates a joint hazard-longitudinal (JHL) model of the timing of migration and labor market … endogenous age of entry in estimating the returns to years since migration by allowing cross-equation correlations of random …

The U.S. is the largest source country of remittances with an outflow of more than $70 billion estimated for 2016 … determinants of remittances originating from the United States for a diverse set of approximately 3,800 households with at least … 0.20-0.30. Remittances are more responsive to earnings in households with more adult women relative to men. …

beneficiaries relative to non-eligible families. The findings suggest that after the introduction of the program, expenditures on …

Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on … the role of worker-job matching in development accounting, we build an equilibrium matching model that allows for cross … determine match feasibility; (ii) technology, which determines the returns to matching; and (iii) idiosyncratic matching …

housing net worth on household expenditures during the Great Recession. Their widely-cited estimates are based on proprietary … specification on our data, we obtain values for the elasticity of expenditures to the housing net worth shock that are virtually … conclusions about the separate roles of house prices and initial housing exposure/leverage for the drop in expenditures. Moreover …