heterogeneous people and cannot conform under one theory or empirical study. Their de facto migration comportment can be understood … migration by bringing together the perspectives of the host and the home country. In this endeavor, it reviewed and evaluated … phenomena of return, circular and onward migration. It emphasized commonalities and compared differences in findings, while …

Immigration policies in western democracies have often been contrary to the policies predicted by the mainstream theory … of international economics. In particular, political parties that, according to economic theory, should adopt policies …. We identify a political principal-agent problem based on ego-rents from political office. Our theory predicts voter …

immigrants to the US and newly digitized historical censuses, we show that this policy substantially hampered technology adoption … migrants,” whose migration was inhibited by the Act, drive this result …

residency. Such policy variation in conjunction with excellent administrative data provides an ideal laboratory to evaluate the … policy …

pre-registered subsamples. The results imply very low substitutability of native for foreign labor in the policy …

receive stochastic opportunities to migrate to an entrant. They can accept a migration opportunity or wait for a future … opportunity. In some circumstances, users have incentives to delay migration until others have migrated. If they all do so, no … migration takes place, even when migration would have been Pareto-superior. This provides an endogenous micro-foundation for …