flows - such as Jamaica or El Salvador - are also better off due to migration, but for a different reason: remittances. The …This paper evaluates the global welfare impact of observed levels of migration using a quantitative multi-sector model … differences, international trade, remittances, and a heterogeneous workforce. We compare welfare under the observed levels of …

new dataset on migration flows (and stocks) and on immigration laws for 14 OECD destination countries and 74 sending … countries for each year over the period 1980-2005. Second, it extends the empirical model of migration choice across multiple … international migration. Our estimates clearly show that bilateral migration flows are increasing in the income per capita gap …

We compile large datasets from Norwegian and US historical censuses to study return migration during the Age of Mass … Migration (1850-1913). Return migrants were somewhat negatively selected from the migrant pool: Norwegian immigrants who …