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 …

(decreases) the employment level, if the union represents (does not represent) migrant workers. -- migration ; welfare state …We apply a monopoly trade union model and analyze employment, wage and budgetary effects of (i) an inflow of migrant … inflow of migrant workers. More interesting, though, it is shown that a larger share of migrants in the workforce increases …

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 …

Lebanon, we show that increased salience of the "refugee crisis" decreases natives' trust and prosocial preferences toward … proximity has a positive spillover effect on social capital towards other migrants. This implies that, while the refugee crisis …

unemployment differential and the regional migration rate. Both variables increase dramatically after the inflow and decline only …

explores the potential economic consequences and transmission mechanisms resulting from the recent refugee migration to Germany …. Measures that cause the migrant qualification structure to closely match that of the native population over the long term do … impact of refugee migration is small. …

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 …