states' citizens unleashed significant east-west migration flows in a labor market with more than half a billion people … states unevenly. This chapter studies whether and how east-west migration flows in an enlarged EU responded to institutional … and economic factors. We first develop a simple framework of adjustment through migration of workers between labor markets …

their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further … implications. Third, we review the national gatekeepers for skilled migration and broad differences in approaches used to select …

This paper is concerned with the determinants and consequences of intercontinental migration over the past four … centuries. It begins with a review of the history of primarily trans-Atlantic migration to the New World during the period of … Colonial settlement. The contract and coerced migration from Europe and Africa gave way, from the 18th century, to an era of …

BACKGROUND: Internal migration, mostly composed of young adults and the poor, constitutes the largest flow of people in … developing countries. Few studies document the patterns and determinants of internal youth migration in sub-Saharan Africa …. METHODS: Using a unique migration household survey in Senegal, we estimate multinomial logit models to analyze the role of …

High-skilled workers are four times more likely to migrate than low-skilled workers. This skill bias in migration … bias in migration significantly increases welfare in most receiving countries. Moreover, due to a more efficient global … that more - not less - high-skilled migration would increase world welfare. …

This chapter connects population aging with international migration. After documenting the trends for both, we review … the supply-push and demand-pull determinants of migration, focusing particularly on the role of age and aging. We … subsequently discuss the literature concerning the implications of migration in the context of aging for labor markets, health and …