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 …

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 …

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

migration. The costs of fortifications are large while the benefits are questionable. The recent trend of building walls and … effective in reducing terrorism, migration, and smuggling. Economic research suggests large benefits to open border policies in … the face of increasing global migration pressures. Less restrictive migration policies should be accompanied by …

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

There is a widespread policy view that a lack of job opportunities at home is a key reason for migration, accompanied … by suggestions of the need to spend more on creating these opportunities so as to reduce migration. Self-employment is … descriptively examine the relationship between migration and self-employment, finding that the self-employed are indeed less likely …

Many empirical studies on the determinants of international migration flows rely exclusively on macro data, and do not … account for migrants' self-selection. We analyze a very interesting episode in international migration for which we are able … individual earnings and use them to estimate a discrete-choice migration equation that allows for correlated errors across …