We analyze the effects of governmental redistribution of income on migration patterns,using an Italian administrative … level covariates, migration costs, and when testing for stochastic dominance of the skill distributions of migrants and … stayers. Policy simulations are run in order to gauge the magnitude of these migration effects. Based on estimated …

Estimating the returns to migration from East to West Germany, this paper focuses on pre-migration employment dynamics … market outcomes, with a large drop in earnings and employment during the last few months before migration. We find sizeable … positive earnings and employment gains of migration both in comparison to staying or job change. The size of the gains varies …

We follow the migration patterns of European inventors and find evidence of a novel emigration determinant: policy …

landscape. Uncertainty and perceptions are influential drivers when it comes to migration decisions, and yet, the literature … migratory behaviour of the citizens of an entire nation. Using official bilateral migration statistics, we highlight a … substantial increase in migration flows from the UK to the remaining EU/EFTA countries. Exceptional spikes in naturalisation …

Previous work suggests a general uncertainty surrounding the migration process acts as a barrier to outmigration. In … migration from 12 European countries between 1997 and 2012 and test the premise that a higher relative uncertainty in the origin …

in the face of asymmetric shocks in Euroland. To this end, we estimate the elasticity of migration with respect to … migration takes several years. We conclude that labour mobility is extremely unlikely to act as a sufficient adjustment …