-layered diversification process in Western societies. Migration phenomena are largely responsible for this process both in receiving European … societies as well as in original sending countries. Migration has been and continues to be a ubiquitous human experience. Yet …

In this paper we study theoretically and empirically the role of the interaction between skilled migration and …

Option Theory, investigates the roots of the migration dynamics. In the model the decision to migrate of each individual … observable "jumps" in the migration flows and to describe how the trigger for entry can change depending on the dimension of the …

This work is devoted to study the role of combined entry and exit strategies in the migration process. We develop a … triggers the migration choice, while the second triggers the return to the country of origin. The theoretical results show that … in some cases we observe migration inflows with a low wage differential and also with underunemployment. We show also …

This paper tries to explain why most migration flows show some observable jumps in their processes, a phenomenon that … seems to be sympathetic with the characteristic of irreversibility of migration. We present a real option model where the … probability of being fully integrated into the host country. The theoretical results show that the optimal migration decision of a …

Investment (FDI), within a Dissipation of Intangible Assets framework. In a two-period model, we discuss how the threat of … knowledge spillover shapes the boundaries of a Multinational Enterprise. Similarly to the theoretical findings on the FDI …-licensing trade off, we show that the integrated solution is more likely to emerge when know-how easily spills over – i.e. when firms …

findings on the FDI-licensing trade off, we show that Foreign Direct Investment is more likely to emerge when know-how easily … Investment (FDI), within a Dissipation of Intangible Assets framework. In a two-period, two-country equilibrium model, we discuss …

In this paper we investigate the choice of FDI versus joint-venture, made by Italian, Spanish and Swiss multinationals …-level dataset, constructed by the author, show that FDI is more likely to emerge when know-how easily spills over - namely for firms …