overcome the usually severe selection issues, we exploit a unique migration lottery that randomly assigns access to residence …

migrant selection. We analyze bilateral country-level education-specific migration stocks from 85 sending countries to the 15 … migration for low-skilled migrants. Results are robust to the inclusion of sending and destination country fixed effects …

, empirical evidence often shows the opposite. Using the case of Mexico-U.S. migration, we show that this inconsistency between … investigating migrant selection can lead to misleading conclusions about the underlying economic incentives and behavioural models … of migration. …

the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in … insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and …

selective out-migration literature, our basic structure assumes that the process that determines out-migration is unrelated to …

Theoretical and empirical research in economics suggests that bilateral migration triggers bilateral trade through a … number of channels. This paper assesses the functional form of the impact of migration on trade flows in a quasi …-experimental setting. We provide evidence that the relationship is not log-linear. In particular, at small levels of migration (stocks) the …

? Combining industry-level patenting and migration data from 32 European countries, we show that emigration in fact positively …

This paper proposes a theory of migration decisions in which cultural traits play a role. Individuals are assumed to … self-selection of inter-regional migrants on world views is non-monotonic if one region is more diverse than the other, and … diverse regions become even more diverse because of migration, while culturally homogeneous regions become even more …