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 …

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

replacement incomes implies migration into unemployment. Defending wages with replacement incomes brings about first …) exclusion of migrants from a national subsidy program makes it possible to avoid a distortion of the migration pattern. …

the total effect of migration depends on the initial income distribution in the economy. Our results also contribute to …

Katz and Rapoport (2005) conclude that with linear production technology and the possibility of unilateral migration … result with Cobb-Douglas technology and migration which may go in both directions. This paper shows that the exit option may …

We develop a model of the interdependencies between migration, remittances and inequality, and investigate how … migration and subsequent remittances affect inter-household inequality in the origin communities. An important feature of our … model is that we take into account the impact of migration on the local (rural) labor market. Migration is shown to decrease …

The migration of skilled individuals from developing countries has typically been considered to be costly for the … migration. It argues that the sectoral aspects of migration and screening of migrants in the receiving country are of major …, duration of migration and the effect of diaspora populations, should be addressed in future empirical work on skilled migration. …