The question of whether migration can be an equilibrating force in the labour market is an important criterion for an … new light on this question by comparing pre- and post-crisis migration movements at the regional level in both Europe and … the United States, and their association with asymmetric labour market shocks. We find that recent migration flows have …

This paper quantitatively investigates the short- and long-run effects of liberalizing global migration on the world … distribution of income. We develop and parametrize a dynamic model of the world economy with endogenous migration, fertility and … education decisions. We identify bilateral migration costs and their legal component for each pair of countries and two classes …

Outward migration data from the Philippines exhibit spatial clustering. This is likely due to information spillover … effects-fellow migrants share information with other neighboring migrants, thereby lowering the costs of migration. To verify … the number of succeeding migrants. We find that current and past migration from one municipality induces contemporaneous …

prices reduces migration and causes unemployment to rise differently in different locations. The model accounts for 90 … percent of the increase in geographical dispersion of unemployment and the entire decline in net migration. However, despite … large effects on migration and geographical dispersion of unemployment, the effect on aggregate unemployment is moderate …

the total effect of migration depends on the initial income distribution in the economy. Our results also contribute to …

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 …