This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth …

Recent European legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand … relax limits for immigrants in order to control migration inflows better. To this end, we use a real option approach to … migration choice that assumes that the decision to migrate can be described as an irreversible investment decision. In our model …

Recent European legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand … relax limits for immigrants in order to control migration inflows better. To this end, we use a real option approach to … migration choice that assumes that the decision to migrate can be described as an irreversible investment decision. In our model …

This paper studies the decision made by a family to invest in student migration. We propose an empirical structural … this procedure. We study the characteristics of potential candidates to migration that increase or decrease their … complete a Master's degree doubles the odds of migration, there is little evidence of gender preference, students migrants are …

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 …

distance-related migration costs cannot explain the lower distance sensitivity of educated and risk-loving individuals. …

We analyse whether migration is an adaptation that households employ to cope with climate in Ghana and Nigeria. If … migration is part of the present adaptation portfolio of households in developing countries, it is reasonable to expect that it … generated by General Circulation model reveal that, ceteris paribus, migration may decline in Ghana and in Nigeria. …

This paper investigates empirically the role of taxes on labor for the stock of expatriates and the migration flows of … skilled workers. Given the increasing mobility of labour, especially of high-skilled people and expatriates, it is interesting … to see to what extent labour income taxes and social security contributions determine migration flows. We collect data on …

This paper analyzes the impact of migration on destination-country corruption levels. Capitalizing on a comprehensive … find that while general migration has an insignificant effect on the destination country’s corruption level, immigration … understanding of the socio-economic implications associated with migration flows. …