therefore have a systematic influence on election results. Using administrative migration and voting data, we show that counties … border and to airports to account for endogenous migration patterns. Results are robust to estimations using first …-wing parties. The results have important policy implications for voting regulations. …

We study the interaction between the optimal immigration policy of a host country and education policy of a source … country in a model of international migration of skilled workers. Acquisition of human capital is driven by the academic and …

, nevertheless, is restricted by migration of the young generations. This connection between political voting on intergenerational … case in which the young generations migration decision takes its effect on future pensions into account (strategic … migration) and the case in which it only reflects differentials in labor income (myopic migration). The paper also pays …

This paper quantitatively investigates the short- and long-run effects of liberalizing global migration on the world … distribution of income. We develop and parametrize a dynamic model of the world economy with endogenous migration, fertility and … education decisions. We identify bilateral migration costs and their legal component for each pair of countries and two classes …

-scale Nazi migration to US occupied regions. Regions that witnessed a Nazi influx exhibit significantly higher voting shares for …

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 …

-lem. With symmetric shocks, the federal fiscal policy can improve welfare by playing a coordinating role. With asymmetric shocks …, the federal policy allows both countries to reach a higher productive efficiency, provided the federal government is …

We develop a quantitative spatial equilibrium model with endogenous migration and remittance decisions within … households to examine the joint effect of migration and remittances on economic development. We apply the model to internal … migration in China. Counterfactual analysis of the calibrated model shows that the presence of remittances increases migration …

Migration of young workers (as distinct from retirees), even when driven in by the generosity of the welfare state …, slows down the trend of increasing dependency ratio. But, even though low-skill migration improves the dependency ratio, it … estimate the fiscal burden that low-skill migration imposes on the fiscal system. However, an important message of this paper …