For decades, migration economics has stressed the effects of migration restrictions on income distribution in the host … country. Recently the literature has taken a new direction by estimating the costs of migration restrictions to global … economic efficiency. In contrast, a new strand of research posits that migration restrictions could be not only desirably …

Very few labor-based pathways for regular migration are available for people in Northern Central America, often called …-based migration channels in the region. It then argues that extending those channels is a necessary complement to asylum reform even …

.S. immigrant workers and workers in their 42 home countries. The average price equivalent of migration barriers in this setting …

immigrant workers and workers in their 42 home countries. The average price equivalent of migration barriers in this setting …

-household migration to high-wage jobs in Korea. This allows unusually reliable measurement of the reduced-form effect of these overseas …