replacement incomes implies migration into unemployment. Defending wages with replacement incomes brings about first …-order efficiency losses that outweigh the budget cost to the government. By contrast, wage subsidies involve much smaller welfare …) exclusion of migrants from a national subsidy program makes it possible to avoid a distortion of the migration pattern. …

with land-intensive production in the non-tradable goods sector (housing). To capture the response to migration on housing … heterogeneous welfare effects of labor market integration. Whereas individuals without residential property lose from immigration … due to increased housing costs, landowners may win. Moreover, we show how the relationship between migration and capital …

country. We analyze the consequences of this migration for both inequality and welfare for the source and the host country. … technological advantage in the skilled intensive good when we allow for both trade and migration skilled workers migrate to that …

leads to an endogenous, unequal distribution of the health-related consequences of pollution across income groups in a … manner consistent with epidemiologic studies, in contrast to much of the literature which assumes equal health effects for … by drawing out the implications of the analysis for the study of the political economy of the environment-trade-welfare …

education sector for human capital formation and economic welfare. Agents privately invest in education after they have received …

distance-related migration costs cannot explain the lower distance sensitivity of educated and risk-loving individuals. …

paper documents the demographic and fiscal importance of international migration, especially in aging societies, reviews the …

This paper looks at the impact of networks on international migration flows to OECD countries. In particular, we look …, unlike the preceding literature on macro determinants of international migration, we can identify the respective factors … gender. Women are also found to be less directly dependent on migration costs unrelated to networks such as distance. …

This paper quantitatively investigates the short- and long-run effects of liberalizing global migration on the world … distribution of income. We develop and parametrize a dynamic model of the world economy with endogenous migration, fertility and … education decisions. We identify bilateral migration costs and their legal component for each pair of countries and two classes …