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 …

immobile individuals to become skilled. -- human capital ; migration ; labour market integration ; agglomeration …

This paper offers a reappraisal of the impact of migration on economic growth for 22 OECD countries between 1986 …-2006 and relies on a unique data set we compiled that allows us to distinguish net migration of the native- and foreign …-born populations by skill level. Specifically, after introducing migration in an augmented Solow-Swan model, we estimate a dynamic …

interaction between pre-migration labor supply and source country female labor supply. We obtain similar effects on hourly …

evaluate the mechanisms that affect the evolution of immigrants' careers in conjunction with their re-migration plans. Our … analysis highlights a novel form of selective return migration where those who plan to stay longer invest more into skill …. Finally, our model provides important insight for the design of migration policies, showing that policies which initially …