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 …

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

This paper makes two contributions to the literature on the determinants of international migration flows. First, we … compile a new dataset on annual bilateral migration flows covering 15 OECD destination countries and 120 sending countries for … our destination countries over this period. Second, we extend the empirical model of migration choice across multiple …

This paper uses a gravity model of migration to analyze how income differentials affect the flow of immigrants into U …

This paper makes two contributions to the literature on the determinants of international migration flows. First, we … compile a new dataset on annual bilateral migration flows covering 15 OECD destination countries and 120 sending countries for … our destination countries over this period. Second, we extend the empirical model of migration choice across multiple …

show that the main effect of migration operates through total factor productivity but not through institutional quality …

that several factors are important determinants of both trade and migration flows, the previous studies are vulnerable to a … trade and immigration flows are based on geography and the demographic trends of each country's trade and migration partners … immigration is the most robust of all the effects identified in this paper. -- international migration ; trade ; income …