The paper reviews recent literature on the economics of migration and diasporas, focusing on economic gains and …

the provided evidence we argue that this effect is channelled through "cultural remittances". …

? Combining industry-level patenting and migration data from 32 European countries, we show that emigration in fact positively …

productivity shifts arising from migration-induced knowledge diffusion and increased workforce diversity. While we find evidence …

fertility levels. We interpret these findings in terms of cultural remittances, consistently with insights from a theoretical …

production. We propose the use of matching techniques and balance checking at this initial stage. This can be interpreted as a … matching leads to results which are more stable with respect to model specification and that this type of formal preprocessing …

We examine both theoretically and empirically how migration affects cultural change in home and host countries. Our … theoretical model integrates various compositional and cultural transmission mechanisms of migration-based cultural change for …, this is mostly to disseminate cultural values and norms from host to home countries (i.e., cultural remittances). …