For decades, migration economics has stressed the effects of migration restrictions on income distribution in the host … country. Recently the literature has taken a new direction by estimating the costs of migration restrictions to global … economic efficiency. In contrast, a new strand of research posits that migration restrictions could be not only desirably …

This paper develops and estimates a joint hazard-longitudinal (JHL) model of the timing of migration and labor market … endogenous age of entry in estimating the returns to years since migration by allowing cross-equation correlations of random …

Many destination countries consider implementing points-based migration systems as a way to improve migrants' quality …

information, debt, and later migration were incompatible with systematic fraud. …

robust to controlling for potentially endogenous return migration and labor force participation. Controls for fixed effects …

Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding … how culture manifests itself in the migration process for three groups of actors: the migrants, those remaining in the … migration as an economic phenomenon; but what about them matters? Properly, we should be looking at the determinants of identity …