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 paper studies in- and out-migration from the U.S. during the first half of the twentieth century and assesses how … these flows affected state-level labor markets. It shows that out-migration positively impacted the wages of remaining … workers, while in-migration had a negative impact. Hence, immigrant arrivals were substitutes of the existing workforce, while …