their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further … implications. Third, we review the national gatekeepers for skilled migration and broad differences in approaches used to select …

This paper reviews recent research regarding high-skilled migration. We adopt a data-driven perspective, bringing … together and describing several ongoing research streams that range from the construction of global migration databases, to the … legal codification of national policies regarding high-skilled migration, to the analysis of patent data regarding cross …

The paper reviews recent literature on the economics of migration and diasporas, focusing on economic gains and … this "diaspora capital". …

cultural distance, proxied by linguistic distance, increases an ethnicity's propensity to fight over government power. To … identify this effect, I leverage within-ethnicity variation in linguistic distance resulting from power transitions between …

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 …