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

to higher concentration of low-skill migrants. Interestingly, diasporas explain majority of the variability of migration …Migration flows are shaped by a complex combination of self-selection and out-selection mechanisms. In this paper, we …-capital structure of current migration flows. Our analysis exploits a bilateral data set on international migration by educational …

This paper presents a tractable dynamic general equilibrium model that can explain cross-country empirical regularities … in geographical mobility, unemployment and labor market institutions. Rational agents vote over unemployment insurance … high unemployment, low geographical mobility and high unemployment insurance, and one “American” steadystate featuring low …

graduate taxes, collected also from migrants, would improve efficiency. It could even allow for a Pareto-improvement. …

migration from new EU members countries, we find moderate negative wage effects, combined with increased unemployment for some …Many European countries restrict immigration from new EU member countries. The rationale is to avoid adverse wage and … unemployment which we model in a price-wage-setting framework. Simulating a counterfactual scenario without restrictions for …

quality of schools and cultural services. The estimated effects of personal unemployment, local unemployment and local wages … on migration plans become weaker when amenity variables are included, indicating that capitalization of amenities cannot … explain weak effects of local economic conditions on migration in Europe. …

In this paper we highlight aspects related to the links between international migration, foreign tied aid and the … welfare state. We model migration as a costly movement from an aid-recipient developing country with low income, poor …-financing rate by the recipient country increases. When the immigration cost decreases, e.g. due to greater economic integration …

-skilled immigrants. This supports the view that policies aimed at making immigration more attractive to the high-skilled have to include …

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. …