This paper studies the heterogeneity of the marginal propensity to consume out of wealth based on French household … surveys. This heterogeneity is driven by differences in both wealth composition and wealth levels. We find a decreasing … marginal propensity to consume out of wealth across the wealth distribution for all net wealth components. The marginal …

the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in …

investigate the impact of differences in the strength of financial institutions and wealth inequality on trade flows, capital … movements and entrepreneurial migration. Distinct cost-cutting and career-changing motives for entrepreneurial migration exist … greater wealth inequality will export the output of the financially dependent sector, will import capital and will be a (net …

In this paper, we study how forced migration impacts the in-group and out-group social capital of Syrian refugees and … the migration experience (for refugees) and the refugee crisis (for the host population). Additionally, we study the … social spillovers to Palestinians, an established refugee population in Lebanon. We find that the impact of forced migration …

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

This paper studies the effect of emigration on gender norms in countries of migrants' origin. We use an instrumental …

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 …

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 … the host country’s culture. While migrants do act as vectors of cultural diffusion and bring about cultural convergence …

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 …