During the last few decades cultural changes have been taking place in many countries due to migration. The degree to … culture will not survive over time. In the second case the local culture will survive. We show the conditions for assimilation … versus no assimilation between the groups. …

assimilated. Less assimilation affects the reaction of the local population to the migrants and their willingness to accept the …' dependence on the welfare state. On the other hand, illegal migrants could play an important role in the assimilation of the …

of migration in alleviating information imperfections between home and host countries. We show that the impact of … migration on financial flows is strongest where information problems are more acute (that is, for more informational sensitive … information in generating home-bias and as new evidence of the role of migration in reducing information frictions between …

-selective. These predictions are then tested empirically using bilateral remittance and migration data and proxy measures for the …

Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the … large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross …-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration …

discrimination in the benchmark case of an economy closed to migration, and then explore how migration prospects affect ethnic … inequality. Under the free migration assumption, we find the intuitive result that migration prospects have a protective effect … there is no migration at equilibrium, unless the distribution of individuals’ skills exhibits marked asymmetries. Last, we …

recent US data on migration rates by education levels (Carrington and Detragiache, 1998), we find empirical support for the …

context of migration. Specifically, we show that if migration is a possibility, such variability in the rate of return to … in a developing economy even after expected migration is netted out. Finally, our findings are shown to have explanatory …

The basic neoclassical model of migration suggests that migration is induced by real income differentials across … clear, despite increased migration from poorer to richer areas. At a theoretical level, one route to addressing this … alternative route, based on a theoretical and empirical proposition of the migration literature, namely, that migration is a …

endogenous international migration into a simple growth model. As a result the dynamics of the economy can feature some …