immigration restrictions on the Great Black Migration. I find that immigration restrictions did not affect average wages and … reveals substantial internal migration and distributional effect caused by the immigration shock: in-migrants to counties more … immigration shock causally and substantially increased the migration of black southerners to northern counties. Black migrants who …

Based on the current European discussion about immigration policy, this paper gives an overview of central economic … the labor market. Its impact on employment, wages and wealth depends crucially on the design of immigration policy …

We ask which migration policy a developed country will choose when its objective is to attain the optimal skill … composition of the country's workforce, and when the policy menu consists of an entry fee and a quota. We compare these two … preferred policy. …

The paper analyzes the impact of skill-biased migration policies under the economics of agglomeration. It therefore … groups with respect to their migration propensity. On the one hand, the model reveals that the effectiveness of migration … migration for one factor of production, reduces (increases) the migration incentive of the other. Consequently, pro-skilled and …