We examine a little-known restriction on high-skill immigration to the United States, the Exchange Visitor Skills List … outdated because it fails to reflect modern economic research on the complex effects of skilled migration on overseas …

capital, population, income growth and distribution, and migration trends are endogenous. We derive new insights about the …Census data from international sources covering 77% of the world's migrant population indicate that the skill …, the population share of skilled migrants has been approaching or exceeding that of skilled natives. We offer theoretical …

on immigration. My aim is to identify facts about international migration relevant to those concerned about why labor …In this chapter, I discuss the recent academic research on international migration, focusing on the causes and …

. Countries with initially higher mortality from infectious diseases experienced greater increases in life expectancy, population … period, a faster increase in population made social conflict more likely, probably because it increased competition for … scarce resources in low income countries. Keywords: civil war, population growth. JEL Classification: J1, 011, O15, Q56 …

European Social Survey to analyze the effects of aggregate immigration flows on the subjective well-being of native …

Recent research suggests that the welfare gains that would result from removing restrictions on international migration … are large. The long-run impact of a higher level of international migration on the global economy is potentially even …'s net migration in any decade has been neither harmful nor beneficial to growth in real income per capita in that decade, in …

. Empirical results from quantile regressions indicate that besides macroeconomic and institutional factors, population ageing and … the high size of working population exhibit some mitigating effects on wealth inequality at lower quantiles and the … opposite effect at high quantiles. Whereas at the quantile above 75, rising share of working age population, population growth …

Die menschliche Geschichte war immer wieder geprägt von Wanderungsprozessen. Doch Migration konnte und kann die …

The scale of international migration flows depends on moving costs that are, in turn, influenced by host … upon bilateral migration flows to multiple destinations. We rely on a Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood estimator to derive … reflect the uncertainty connected to the use of aggregate data, and we show that bilateral migration flows can be highly …

countries at rates not seen since before World War One. During the same period, economists' study of international migration has … effects of global migration during the past half century. That evidence falsifies most of the core predictions of the old … model. The economics of migration will regain vitality and relevance by discarding and replacing its outworn paradigm. …