overcome the usually severe selection issues, we exploit a unique migration lottery that randomly assigns access to residence …

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 …

quantify risk sharing can be extended to account for migration as an additional channel of cross-country risk sharing. In … theory, migration should play a key role when it comes to insulating per capita consumption from aggregate fluctuations, and … these results, we also present survey evidence which shows that migration rates are about 20 times higher in the US. Lastly …

During the Great Recession, immigrants reacted to the drop in labour demand in Spain through internal migration or …

by both academics and policy makers. We study the role of labor protection in shaping native preferences over migration …