extent of the assimilation of migrants. Recent empirical findings are yielded as predictions of the theory. …We present a theory that systematically and causally links the well-being of native inhabitants with variation in the …

extent of the assimilation of migrants. Recent empirical findings are yielded as predictions of the theory. …We present a theory that systematically and causally links the well-being of native inhabitants with variation in the …

different but important question: how much do migrants gain from moving to another country? Using Gallup World Poll data and a … migrants from transition economies. We contribute to the literature by showing that in addition to increasing household income …

some studies suggesting that migrants are miserable in their new locations. Observational studies are potentially biased by … the self-selection of migrants so a natural experiment is used to compare successful and unsuccessful applicants to a …

This paper analyses incomes and socioeconomic status of internal migrants over time and in comparison to their new …. Using a novel dataset from the emerging economy of Kazakhstan we find that internal migrants earn an income and status …

the effects that migrants have on a host country's population continues to be an important research agenda. There is a … large literature documenting the effects that migrants have on native wages, tax burden, unemployment, etc. However, very … little is understood about how migrants affect the happiness, or subjective well-being, of natives.This paper uses the …