This paper studies attitudes towards income redistribution in the country of origin among those who stay in a welfare … increasing income redistribution, while majority of women supports it. Women are somewhat more positive towards redistribution … redistribution are driven by beliefs about the determinants of individual success, generalized trust, assimilation to the new home …

La Ferrara (2005a), and have not been covered by a survey before. -- redistribution ; social security ; welfare state …

migration among those from countries with better quality school. In other words, it is the impact of origin country school …

This paper studies in- and out-migration from the U.S. during the first half of the twentieth century and assesses how … these flows affected state-level labor markets. It shows that out-migration positively impacted the wages of remaining … workers, while in-migration had a negative impact. Hence, immigrant arrivals were substitutes of the existing workforce, while …

Many empirical studies on the determinants of international migration flows rely exclusively on macro data, and do not … account for migrants' self-selection. We analyze a very interesting episode in international migration for which we are able … individual earnings and use them to estimate a discrete-choice migration equation that allows for correlated errors across …

relationships have the opposite signs in economies characterized by skilled migration (relative to the native population). Such …

to assess the extent of emigration and return migration among the very highly skilled, and to analyze, at the … microeconomic level, the determinants of these migration choices. Although we estimate that the income gains from migration are very … large, not everyone migrates and many return. Within this group of highly skilled individuals the emigration decision is …

Immigration authorities have seldom collected data on the out-migration of the foreign-born. As a consequence, several … indirect approaches have been proposed to measure and study out-migration. This paper adds to the literature by using official … statistics that directly identify the out-migration by demographic and socio-economic characteristics. Using time series and …