We examine both theoretically and empirically how migration affects cultural change in home and host countries. Our … theoretical model integrates various compositional and cultural transmission mechanisms of migration-based cultural change for …

indicate that income taxes are a significant pull factor for international migration decisions. The same is true with respect … to intra-national migration. However, dominance analysis suggests that the relative impact of taxes compared to other …

with land-intensive production in the non-tradable goods sector (housing). To capture the response to migration on housing … due to increased housing costs, landowners may win. Moreover, we show how the relationship between migration and capital … reversal of migration during the transition to the steady state, like observed in East Germany after unification in 1990. It is …

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 …

second country, from which a steady stream of greenhouse gases occur. If this migration imposes costs on the emitting country …, then migration induces a sort of pseudo carbon tax.via political economic forces. This pseudo tax creates an incentive for …), is smaller in the presence of migration. I discuss various comparative dynamics, for both the path of production and the …

their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further … implications. Third, we review the national gatekeepers for skilled migration and broad differences in approaches used to select …