This paper starts with a brief historical overview of immigration in Europe. We then provide a comprehensive analysis …

This paper starts with a brief historical overview of immigration in Europe. We then provide a comprehensive analysis …

these selectivity issues using the randomization provided by an immigration ballot under the Pacific Access Category (PAC …) of New Zealand’s immigration policy. We survey applicants to the 2002-05 PAC ballots in Tonga and compare outcomes for … ballots. The immigration laws determine which household members can accompany the principal migrant, providing an instrument …

The study analyzes the changes in emigration from Estonia in order to shed more light on East-West migration …, contributing to the main debate on “brain drain” by focusing on educational differences in emigration. We use anonymous individual … level data for all emigrants from the register-based Estonian Emigration Database compiled by Statistics Estonia for the …

Moldova, we show that the emigration episode that started in the late 1990s strongly affected political preferences and … Communist government in Europe. Our results are suggestive of information transmission and cultural diffusion channels …. Identification relies on the quasi-experimental context studied and on the differential effects arising from the fact that emigration …

This paper analyses the effect of emigration from Poland around the time of EU accession on the Polish labour market … are currently living abroad, which allows us to develop region-specific emigration rates and estimate emigrationâ …€™s effect on wages using within-region variation. Our results show that emigration from Poland was largest for workers with …

for the rate of return migration are then estimated using unique data on emigration rates matched to individual-level data …

size, skills, and diversity of immigration on the innovativeness of host regions. For this purpose we construct a panel of … data on 170 regions in Europe (NUTS 2 level) for the periods 1991-1995 and 2001-2005. Innovation outcomes are measured by …'s restaurants as a novel instrument for immigration. The results confirm that innovation is clearly a function of regional …

This paper develops a model to analyze the effects of immigration by skill on the outcome of a majority vote among … goods (transfers) and on non-rival goods (public goods). I find that the effect of immigration on public spending depends on …