remittance and migration data and proxy measures for the restrictiveness and selectivity of immigration policies at destination …

institutions in the home country. We find that both openess to migration and human capital have a positive impact on institutions … (as measured by standard democracy and economic freedom indices). This implies that unskilled migration has a positive … effect on institutional quality while the effect of skilled migration (or brain drain) is ambiguous. Using the point …

In this paper we investigate the impact of global migration on the welfare of native workers in the OECD countries. We … develop a multi-country, general equilibrium model with trade and migration. Labor is assumed to be heterogeneous, whereas the … redistribution is also examined. The main result of this paper is the quantification of the welfare effects of migration for …

economy. First, we combine data on effective and desired migration to identify the net pool of foreign talents (NPFT) of … benefit less than the US. In addition, liberalizing high-skilled migration decreases income per worker by 2.5 percent in …

The paper investigates the welfare consequences of liberalizing migration and trade between the OECD countries. The key …), whereas the impact of reducing the barriers for migration in OECD is substantially more pronounced (+ 2,0% in real GDP … eliminating migration barriers provides positive outcomes for only a few destinations and increases the between and within …

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 …

the net benefits of migration by reducing assimilation costs (’self-selection channel’) and by lowering legal entry … elasticity of migration flows to network size is around one. Second, only a quarter of this elasticity is accounted for by the …

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 … various determinants of migration, we find diasporas increase migration flows, lower their average educational level and lead …

This paper analyses the impact of networks on the structure of international migration flows to OECD countries. In … migrant. Therefore, unlike the preceding literature on macro determinants of international migration, we can identify the …