migrants decide between working in different destinations. We test theories of income maximization, skill-selection, and multi …

Anti-immigrant sentiment is frequently motivated by the idea that migrants are a threat to the host country's culture … (Rapoport et al., 2020). We contribute to the discussion by investigating whether migrants adapt their social preferences (SPs … migrants' preferences strongly correlate with their host population's SPs and provide some evidence of a causal relationship. …

Empirically identifying the causal effect of social networks on migrants' economic prospects is a challenging task due … to the non-random residential sorting of migrants into locations with greater opportunities for (previous) connections … migrants that were exogenously allocated to their first place of residence by German authorities. The empirical results reveal …

migrants upgrading their education and changing their locations and occupations. This results in large sustained benefits to …

political accountability. We find that this effect can be mainly attributed to the presence of return migrants, particularly to …

migrants upgrading their education and changing their locations and occupations. This results in large sustained benefits to …

quantitatively assess the role of communication between migrants and their contacts abroad on the extent and value of remittance … flows. In the experiment, a random sample of 1,500 migrants residing in Ireland was offered the possibility of contacting … remittance recipients' social pressure on migrants …

quantitatively assess the role of communication between migrants and their contacts abroad on the extent and value of remittance … flows. In the experiment, a random sample of 1,500 migrants residing in Ireland was offered the possibility of contacting … remittance recipients’ social pressure on migrants …

focus lies on two theory-based economic channels, labor market and welfare state concerns, and immigration policy …