continuum of tasks in each sector and we augment it to include immigrants with heterogeneous productivity in tasks. We use this … pushed natives toward more communication-intensive tasks while it has pushed immigrants away from them. …

Empirical studies in the migration literature have shown that migration enclaves (networks) negatively affect the … data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that migrants choose smaller networks as their English language proficiency …

hard to detect, (iv) post-enlargement migration contributes to growth prospects of the EU, (v) these immigrants are …. This essay provides a broad and in-depth account of the effects of the post-enlargement migration flows on the receiving as … analysis of the available literature and empirical evidence shows that (i) EU enlargement had a significant impact on migration …

There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This …

In this paper we introduce the notion of herd effects or information cascades into models of migration …. The herd behaviour which ensues gives rise to geographical concentration in host countries of immigrants from the one …

The short- and longer-term regional consequences of migration for European aggregate supply are examined in a simple … with free migration is always associated with an efficiency loss and might lead to the `Mezzogiorno syndrome' in the East. …

Does migration facilitate regional adjustment to idiosyncratic shocks? The evidence from post-communist economies … indicates that the efficacy of migration in reducing inter-regional unemployment and wage differentials has in fact been rather … low. High wages appear to encourage - and, similarly, high unemployment tends to discourage - overall migration – inbound …

central planning to a market economy. I show that while the intensity of migration is low and has even fallen during the … effect in facilitating labour market adjustment to employment shocks. Using aggregate inter-regional migration data and … survey data on past and prospective migration and the willingness to move, I find that economic factosr play little role in …

leave the country’s universities - or not to return to them - a process that has brought Israel’s top economics departments …