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 …

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 …