. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving … society. The paper suggests that skilled immigration promotes economic equality in advanced economies under standard …

. Countries with initially higher mortality from infectious diseases experienced greater increases in life expectancy, population … period, a faster increase in population made social conflict more likely, probably because it increased competition for … scarce resources in low income countries. Keywords: civil war, population growth. JEL Classification: J1, 011, O15, Q56 …

European Social Survey to analyze the effects of aggregate immigration flows on the subjective well-being of native …

immigration. Nevertheless, interprovincial migration also results in a spreading effect of Dutch disease from booming to non …This paper looks at whether immigration can mitigate the Dutch disease effects associated with booms in natural …, we test for the existence of a mitigating effect of immigration in terms of an increase in the size of the non …

selective out-migration literature, our basic structure assumes that the process that determines out-migration is unrelated to …

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 …

capital with two dimensions of immigration policy: restrictiveness, and selectivity. The model predicts that the relationship … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The … effect of education is more likely to be positive when the immigration policy is more restrictive and less skill …

We exploit the increase in immigration flows into western European countries that took place in the 2000s to assess … whether immigration affects crime victimization and the perception of criminality among European natives. Using data from the … estimations that deal with the endogenous sorting of immigration by region and with the sampling error in survey based measures of …

United States immigration since the early 1970s. The model incorporates ratios of source country income, education, and … the stock of previous immigrants, and various controls for immigration quota policy. The model is estimated on a panel of … composition of U.S. immigration by source.This paper - a product of Investment Climate, Development Research Group - is part of a …