This dissertation was prepared as a collection of 4 research articles in the field of international trade with a focus … on gravity modeling and estimation for international trade and migration and on domestic firm-level labor market effects … migration frictions. Chapter 3 asks how the welfare quantification of trade liberalization changes if one allows workers to be …

The social contract of the welfare state can be strained by the arrival of immigrants who receive welfare payments … financed by citizens' taxes. We show, however, that the presence of unemployed immigrants receiving welfare payments is …

immigrants in Germany. We find that a parametric model which explicitly allows for misclassification performs better than a …

immigrants to be favorably selected, although this is less intense under the later criteria. The overall favorable selectivity of … immigrants, therefore, depends on the favorable selectivity of the supply of immigrants and the criteria used to ration …

literature which studies the effect of the immigrants' characteristics, such as age, gender, education, religion, age at arrival …, stock of immigrants in the host country, etc., on their ethnic identity (such as the Ethnosizer). In addition, this paper …

, separation or marginalization. A large body of literature has emerged examining the effects of immigrants' characteristics (age …

, separation or marginalization. A large body of literature has emerged examining the effects of immigrants' characteristics (age …