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 …

We analyze the effects of governmental redistribution of income on migration patterns,using an Italian administrative … dataset that includes information on almost every Italian citizen living abroad. Since Italy takes a middle ground in terms of … level covariates, migration costs, and when testing for stochastic dominance of the skill distributions of migrants and …

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 …

expellee inflow was distributed very asymmetrically across two West German regions. A dynamic two-region search and matching … unemployment differential and the regional migration rate. Both variables increase dramatically after the inflow and decline only …