significant impact on the world distribution of income. In this paper we discuss the potential for migration policies to affect … more or less restrictive/selective migration policies and derive their implications for the evolution of world inequality. …According to recent UN projections more than 50 percent of the growth in world population over the next half century …

significant impact on the world distribution of income. In this paper we discuss the potential for migration policies to affect … more or less restrictive/selective migration policies and derive their implications for the evolution of world inequality …According to recent UN projections more than 50 percent of the growth in world population over the next half century …

of migration in alleviating information imperfections between home and host countries. We show that the impact of … migration on financial flows is strongest where information problems are more acute (that is, for more informational sensitive … information in generating home-bias and as new evidence of the role of migration in reducing information frictions between …

This paper reviews a growing literature on migration and globalization, focusing on its relevance for developing and …

explanation for this puzzle that emphasizes the diffusion of culture and information through internal migration. It tests how … migration affected fertility by building a decennial bilateral migration matrix between French regions for 1861-1911. The …