on gravity modeling and estimation for international trade and migration and on domestic firm-level labor market effects … of internationalization. Chapter 2 structurally estimates a micro-founded gravity equation for migration flows. For a … migration frictions. Chapter 3 asks how the welfare quantification of trade liberalization changes if one allows workers to be …

This paper analyzes long-term effects of skilled-worker immigration on productivityfor the Huguenots migration to …

Albanian migration based on a unique representative survey of rural households. The study confirms that migrants are mostly … young, male, and single. Regional variations in migration reflect a combination of cultural and economic factors, including … migration costs. However, we find that migrants do not come from the poorest rural households. Moreover, education has a …

Seasonal migration is an ever more important phenomenon worldwide, but has received little attention in empirical … research. This paper investigates the choice of seasonal versus longer-term migration on a household level. We use data from …. We also find that existing local networks of seasonal migrants are unrelated to permanent migration choice. Generally …

empirically. More specifically, we use state-level German data to answer the question whether and how migration and FDI decisions … and thus integration of labor and capital markets are linked. Our findings suggest that FDI and migration have similar …

intensive investment) and labor thinning (net out-migration). I propose a constant-returns neoclassical model of economic …

In this paper we study the determinants of international migration to Germany, 1967-2000. The empirical literature on … macro-economic migration functions usually explains migration flows by a set of explanatory variables such as the income … acknowledged as nonstationary, the standard model in the migration literature can only meet the requirements of modern non …