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 …

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 …

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 …

migrant selection. We analyze bilateral country-level education-specific migration stocks from 85 sending countries to the 15 … migration for low-skilled migrants. Results are robust to the inclusion of sending and destination country fixed effects …

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of refugee migration, with emphasis on the current refugee crisis. After …