How do climate disasters shape migration? The existing evidence presents conflicting and inconclusive findings. To … address this question, we theorize the cognitive processes guiding migration decisions in the wake of disasters. On the one … hand, the link between climate disasters and migration aspirations may be driven by sudden-onset (e.g. heavy rains, storms …

We consider the case in which the opening up of an economy to migration results in departure of skilled workers. We … point out that while the possibility of migration changes the set of employment opportunities, it also affects the structure … several interesting results. First, while migration is pursued by the relatively high-skilled, subsequent return migrants are …

firms, the flow of technology and the migration of people. These rules have to make sure that individuals, individual … been introduced to ease patent applications. TRIPS protects intellectual property. Rules for labor migration relate to the … a pecking order between trade, capital flows and migration. …

migration background and children from more privileged families. Students with a migration background and a disadvantageous …

indicate that income taxes are a significant pull factor for international migration decisions. The same is true with respect … to intra-national migration. However, dominance analysis suggests that the relative impact of taxes compared to other …

capital than if they had migrated without factoring in the possibility of migration (a form of brain drain), other workers … stay at home with more human capital than they would have formed in the absence of the possibility of migration (a form of …