social mobility increases. Using data on happiness and a broad set of fairness measures from the World Values Survey, we find … ; World Values Survey …

source and five destination countries we find selective migration determined by relative anthropometric inequality in source … experienced a small positive effect, because the less educated emigrated in larger numbers. -- international migration ; labor …

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 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 …

In this first empirical analysis of how sanctions affect international migration, we apply two estimation strategies, a …, reflecting migration flows from 157 origin countries to 32 (largely OECD) destination countries between 1961 and 2018. The data … UN sanctions on international migration is smaller and less persistent. Moreover, the effects are driven by target …

migration calibrated to US states and foreign countries. Reducing US migrant population shares back to 1980s levels increases …

, and international migration by asylum seekers. A priori generalized trust can be expected to have an ambiguous effect on … migration. On the one hand, countries with higher trust may exhibit higher adaptive capacity to temperature fluctuations and so … lower climate-induced migration. On the other hand, trust may also facilitate migration by increasing the likelihood that …