We trace the rise of the so called oligarchs in post-Soviet Russia and examine their relationship to income … distribution in Russia. When Russia moved to a market economy in the 1990s a new business elite evolved. Russia's distinctive path …

’s human capital accumulation function in the periphery are incorporated. I show how migration affects the inter … help increase the per-capita human capital levels, if free uncontrolled migration leads to a reduction in human capital …

replacement incomes implies migration into unemployment. Defending wages with replacement incomes brings about first …) exclusion of migrants from a national subsidy program makes it possible to avoid a distortion of the migration pattern. …

The economic consequences of migration are hotly debated and a main topic of recent populist movements across Europe … identification, we exploit a historical episode in the Polish migration history to Germany before the fall of the Iron Curtain and … construct a shift-share instrument. Our results differ from findings for high-skilled migration to the United States, which is …

number has fueled fears about "Brain Drain" as only 3% of the population obtains tertiary education. Although migration … can compensate for the selection of high-skilled workers into migration. This papers measures the selection, incentive and … migration, thereby decreasing the average schooling level in the origin countries. However, stronger incentives to invest in …

more connected, likely due to increased migration from poorer to richer regions. We find more socially connected region …

This paper investigates how migration and location choice decisions depend on a large set of location characteristics …

in tax revenue from the out-ow of migration. …