The economic consequences of migration are hotly debated and a main topic of recent populist movements across Europe … identification, we exploit a historical episode in the Polish migration history to Germany before the fall of the Iron Curtain and … construct a shift-share instrument. Our results differ from findings for high-skilled migration to the United States, which is …

? Combining industry-level patenting and migration data from 32 European countries, we show that emigration in fact positively …

local skill share and that both skill acquisition and migration play a role. We develop and quantify a spatial equilibrium … migration linkages between cities. Counterfactual experiments suggest that the growth in capital goods imports in China between …

more connected, likely due to increased migration from poorer to richer regions. We find more socially connected region …

robust to controlling for potentially endogenous return migration and labor force participation. Controls for fixed effects …

Whilst migration has become a structural feature of most European countries, the integration of foreigners in the …

For a long time, migration has been subject to intensive economic research. Nevertheless, empirical evidence regarding … the determinants of migration still appears to be incomplete. In this paper, we analyze the effects of socio-economic and … and unemployment benefits have positive effects on migration. Also good education and health systems tend to attract …