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

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 … migrants for admission. Looking forward, the capacity of people, firms, and countries to successfully navigate this tangled web …

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 …

international migration have overlooked the role of short-run factors in explaining international migration flows. This paper aims … to fill that gap. We first derive a model of optimal migration choice based on an extension of the traditional Random … any origin country may trigger some additional migration flows on top of the impact exerted by long-run factors such as …

I investigate the effect of attitudes toward migrants on the average skill composition of immigrants in destination … countries. A model is presented showing that negative attitudes toward migrants can reduce the average skill composition. The … hypothesis, I use survey data on attitudes toward migrants as well as data on migrant stocks by education level and origin …

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

This paper studies the labor market impact of documented and undocumented immigration in a model with search frictions … than natives. Therefore, immigration results in the creation of additional jobs but also generates more job competition … find that the job creation effect of undocumented immigration dominates its job competition effect and leads to gains in …

, countries compete in taxes for migrants. With asymmetric preferences, migration competition takes place in income support levels …The paper provides an equilibrium analysis of how countries compete for migrants. The type of competition (tax or … results are relevant, e.g., for federal policies that tackle inefficient migration competition and for evaluating whether a …