Cultural differences play an important role in shaping migration patterns. The conventional proxies for cross country … tractable model for international migration which explicitly allows for the time varying and asymmetric dimensions of cultural … dimensional fixed effects which enables for the identification of the impact of cultural proximity on migration over and beyond …

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 …

of migration in alleviating information imperfections between home and host countries. We show that the impact of … migration on financial flows is strongest where information problems are more acute (that is, for more informational sensitive … information in generating home-bias and as new evidence of the role of migration in reducing information frictions between …