We use aggregated data from Facebook to study the structure of social networks across European regions. Social … boundaries. All else equal, social connectedness is stronger between regions with residents of similar ages and education levels … more connected, likely due to increased migration from poorer to richer regions. We find more socially connected region …

geographical and cultural, immigration policies and migrant networks. Differentiating immigrants by their educational attainments … different destination countries. Focusing on migration between the four countries in our data set, we find that migration within …

migration there over the period 1971-2001. What we find is that the stock of foreign students is an important predictor of … subsequent migration. This holds true whether or not the lagged endogenous variable is included. The relationship is robust to …

voting population were key drivers of the Vote Leave share, in particular their education profiles, their historical … cities, we find that areas with deprivation in terms of education, income and employment were more likely to vote Leave. Our …

-scale Nazi migration to US occupied regions. Regions that witnessed a Nazi influx exhibit significantly higher voting shares for …

This paper investigates how the size of co-ethnic networks at the time of arrival affect the economic success of … with larger co-ethnic networks are more likely to be employed at first, but have a lower probability of investing in human …

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 …

in tax revenue from the out-ow of migration. …

the total wage sum (net of education costs). In particular, integration depresses the incentives for some talented but …