This paper aims to quantify the effects from migration on net income distributions, disentangling the roles played by … variant of a shift-share instrument to identify the effect of migration on inequalities at the regional level in Spain and … Jordan. The results suggest that migration increases inequality in both origin and receiving countries. …

Using bilateral data on migration across US metro areas, we find strong evidence that increasing house price and income … inequality has reduced long distance migration, the type most linked to jobs. For those migrating uphill, from a less to a more … dominate the incentives from higher earnings. By contrast, increasing income inequality drives the fall in downhill migration …