The migration of Mexican immigrants to the U.S. is one of the largest bilateral migration flows in the world and … controls on illegal migration, this may impact both migration durations and remittances. Tighter borders increase crossing … costs, often because migrants need to pay smugglers (coyotes). Using data from the Mexican Migration Project, we find that …

This paper evaluates the global welfare impact of observed levels of migration using a quantitative multi-sector model … migration to a no-migration counterfactual. In the long run, natives in countries that received a lot of migration -- such as … the short run the impact of migration on average welfare in these countries is close to zero, while the skilled and …

-selective. These predictions are then tested empirically using bilateral remittance and migration data and proxy measures for the …

Factors shaping international migration, over the last half century, from and into the countries and territories of sub …

results are robust to different measures of remittances and migration. When we differentiate between regions by their exposure … do not have migrants, remittances have no effect on the labor supply by males, suggesting that migration and not …

This chapter offers an overview of migration and remittance flows with respect to the Latin American and Caribbean …. Emphasis is given to south–south migration, to the factors that have motivated the out-migration of Latin Americans to the …