his paper examines an important anomaly in the internal migration history of the former Soviet Union (FSU). While many … cities were closed in the sense of explicitly limiting growth of city population from migration, it was difficult to assess …

This paper investigates how the feasibility of migration affects governments' optimal fiscal policies. We assume that … migration to welfare. In the limiting case of free mobility, all households are zero net fiscal contributors. …

examine net migration rates for a sample of 171 medium and large cities for the period 1960 through 2002. We conclude that … while the declining net migration rate was reversed during the first half of the 1990s, restrictions continued to matter … during the early years of transition in the sense that net migration rates were lower in the restricted than in the …

This paper discusses the extent to which migrants to Britain have been assimilated into the workforce. Migration into …

market. Greater adaptability of workers through the migration process is also a key element in making the European Union more …

migration on per-capita domestic consumption. In one model we assume perfect substitutability between migrants and natives while … in a second model we explore the effect of migration in the case of imperfect substitutability. We find that migration … long run, while in the case of imperfect substitutability migration increases the long-run per-capita domestic consumption …

This paper studies international migration from a complex-network perspective. We define the international-migration … weighted-network statistics. We also show that a parsimonious gravity model of migration can account for most of observed IMN …

subsidizing human capital investment. The paper analyses the conditions when migration can act as a substitute for subsidizing …