, especially when it comes to the debate on the effects of immigration on the employment and wages of natives in high … should be directed towards emigration. Using a new dataset on migration flows by education levels for the period 1990 …-2000, the results show the following: First, immigration had zero to small positive long-run effect on the average wages of …

address these selectivity issues using the randomization provided by an immigration ballot under the Pacific Access Category … of New Zealand?s immigration policy. They survey applicants to the 2002-05 ballots in Tonga and compare outcomes for the … immigration laws determine which household members can accompany the principal migrant, providing an instrument to address the …

To what extent does immigration affect the economic institutions in destination countries? While there is much evidence … that economic institutions in developed nations are either unaffected or improved after immigration, there is little … evidence of how immigration affects the economic institutions of developing countries that typically have weaker institutions …

highly skilled across age groups. Immigration plays a relatively minor role, except in a handful of open countries, like … Australia and Canada, where it accentuates the wage-equalizing impact of ageing and education. Emigration is the only …

among the largest in the world. This study uses a unique household survey to examine the impact of emigration on wages in … Moldova. The authors find a positive and significant impact of emigration on wages and the result is robust to the use of … alternative samples and specifications. The size of the emigration coefficient varies depending on the sample and model …

emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries …. The authors find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. This implies that … unskilled (skilled) emigration has a positive (ambiguous) impact on institutional quality. Simulations show an impact of skilled …