effects of aging populations, migration, and globalization on the deteriorating system of financing welfare state benefits as … debt to maintain national pension systems at current levels. Low-skill migration produces additional strains on welfare … expanding the welfare state. The combined pressures of aging, migration, and globalization will shift the balance of political …

High-skilled workers are four times more likely to migrate than low-skilled workers. This skill bias in migration … bias in migration significantly increases welfare in most receiving countries. Moreover, due to a more efficient global … that more - not less - high-skilled migration would increase world welfare. …

We investigate the consequences of redistribution policy on migration and trade in a Standard two-good Heckscher …-Ohlin framework. With free trade and factor price equalization, abolishing migration barriers is redundant. With the introduction of … higher transfers. We show that in such a world, free migration increases the bürden of the welfare program in the rieh …