achievement tests and general intelligence. Second-generation immigrations are disproportionately affected by prevailing social …

to higher concentration of low-skill migrants. Interestingly, diasporas explain majority of the variability of migration …Migration flows are shaped by a complex combination of self-selection and out-selection mechanisms. In this paper, we …-capital structure of current migration flows. Our analysis exploits a bilateral data set on international migration by educational …

original and detailed data on migration. Our results provide evidence of a strong transfer of fertility norms from migrants to …This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of … international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries …

-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 …