equilibria: some countries have mostly temporary migration programs and see a low degree of cultural assimilation by the migrants …This paper examines the role of cultural factors in driving the politics and shape of migration policy. We show that … foreign workers and also admitting an inefficiently large number of permanent migrants, but not enough to fill any labor …

international migration have overlooked the role of short-run factors in explaining international migration flows. This paper aims … to fill that gap. We first derive a model of optimal migration choice based on an extension of the traditional Random … any origin country may trigger some additional migration flows on top of the impact exerted by long-run factors such as …

migration patterns. We apply instrumental variables (IV) approaches that capture the exogenous variance of bilateral trust …

1820-1909.We apply age heaping techniques to measure human capital selectivity of international migrants. In a sample of 52 … source and five destination countries we find selective migration determined by relative anthropometric inequality in source …

We examine environmental factors as potential determinants of international migration. We distinguish between … on a simple neo-classical model we use a panel dataset of bilateral migration flows for the period 1960-2000, the time … whole, we find little direct impact of climatic change on international migration in the medium to long run across our …

, many studies of migration¡¯s impact on pensions often focus on aggregate outcomes ¨C system sustainability or distributive …

Immigration may impact income distribution both by affecting the skill composition of a country’s residents, and, by … focus primarily on factor prices. We first consider the economic theory of the impact of immigration on factor prices and … immigration on the native income distribution. We then survey the evidence on this question for several countries, and conclude by …

We present a theory on migration of dual-earner couples, and test it in the context of international migration. Our …

An important issue in public policy debates is the effect of international migration on welfare in source and host … countries. We address this issue by constructing a general equilibrium model of a two-class source or host country. Each country … analysis examines the effects of permanent migration on class, and national welfare. We show, among other things, that marginal …

original and detailed data on migration. Our results provide evidence of a strong transfer of fertility norms from migrants to …This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of … international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries …