This paper investigates the effects of international migration restrictions on communities' capacity to absorb income … migration as an adaptive strategy. Relying on a panel of the universe of Indonesian villages, we use a triple difference …

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 …

This paper investigates how migration and location choice decisions depend on a large set of location characteristics …

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 …

taxation on the migration decisions of the entire working population in a high-tax source country, Finland. We find that the … average domestic elasticity of migration with respect to the domestic tax rate is very small (around 0.0005). We also examine … the income gradient of the semi-elasticity of migration, shown to be the key sufficient statistic in Lehmann et al. (2014 …

How does economic modernization affect group identity? Modernization theory emphasizes how labor migration led to the … declines in transportation and communication costs. Using microdata on individuals’ names and migration decisions, we quantify … identity change and its variation across space. We develop and estimate a quantitative spatial model in which migration and …