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 …

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 …

The scale of international migration flows depends on moving costs that are, in turn, influenced by host … upon bilateral migration flows to multiple destinations. We rely on a Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood estimator to derive … reflect the uncertainty connected to the use of aggregate data, and we show that bilateral migration flows can be highly …

high-skill) migration is becoming the dominant pattern of international migration and a major aspect of globalization. We … and review the evidence on these channels. The recent empirical literature shows that high-skill emigration need not …

income. We also show that the effect of migration operates through an increase in total factor productivity, which appears to …

migration from a country of origin to a US state is driven by trade opportunities between the two locations - by exploiting the …

-skilled individuals when credit constraints and other migration barriers are unlikely to be binding. …