Italy is a country with a long history of emigration and a very short experience of immigration. The paper first … surveys the Italian emigration pattern describing the characteristics of the Italian emigrants (age, sex, skill level), their … area of origins and the directions of their movement. The determinants of the migration choice are then analyzed as well as …

Many empirical studies on the determinants of international migration flows rely exclusively on macro data, and do not … account for migrants' self-selection. We analyze a very interesting episode in international migration for which we are able … individual earnings and use them to estimate a discrete-choice migration equation that allows for correlated errors across …

In this paper, we simulate the labor market effects of net immigration and emigration during the 1990's in all OECD … graduates, relative to all other individuals, we find that net migration flows are college-intensive, relative to the population … wage effects of immigration and emigration. We use a range of parameter values spanning most of the estimates in the …

Ecuador experienced an unprecedented wave of international migration since the late 1990s, triggered by a severe … Ecuadorian migrants: the US and Spain. First, we provide a careful description of the main characteristics of migration flows … countries, and attempt to reconcile the features of migration flows with our predictions for earnings by destination. We find …

. I exploit this emigration wave to study the effect of emigration on wages in the sending country. Using household data … from Lithuania and work permit and census data from the UK and Ireland, I demonstrate that emigration had a significant … positive effect on the wages of stayers. A one percentage-point increase in the emigration rate predicts a 0.67% increase in …

Recent migration patterns show growing migration pressure and changing composition of immigrants in many Western … educational level of the population is low. The migration patterns may be affected by the relatively generous welfare schemes in … most OECD countries, but also network effects and migration policy changes may be important factors behind the observed …

In this empirical paper we assess how labour market transitions and out- and repeated migration of immigrants are … in the number of migrants from the EU accession countries will lead to higher labour market and migration dynamics …

The economic literature has largely overlooked the importance of repeat migration. This paper studies repeat or … circular migration as it is manifested by the frequency of exits of migrants living in Germany, and by the number of years … the middle ages), and the newcomers and the more seasoned are significantly more likely to engage in circular migration …

that several factors are important determinants of both trade and migration flows, the previous studies are vulnerable to a … trade and immigration flows are based on geography and the demographic trends of each country's trade and migration partners …