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 …

determined both the attractiveness of different US counties at the time of migration, as well as current levels of development …. The results indicate that while there is a strong and positive impact associated with overall migration, the national …

migration waves of the late 19th and early 20th centuries has left a legacy on the economic development of the counties where … look at the geography of migration across US counties in the 48 continental states. We then link this settlement pattern of … number of factors which may have influenced both the location of migrants at the time of migration, as well as for the …

Migration research has been quite successful in explaining changes in migration flows. Less satisfactory are its …

This is a survey of some of the key studies in the literature on international migration in history that may be … migrations. Here I focus on the period 1850 to 1940 and chiefly on migration from Europe to the New World. The survey is … organised around six themes that include: the forces driving migration, over time and across space; the assimilation of migrants …

world starting from the 19th century. The impact of the original, exogenously-given laws on international migration proves … insignificant for the early, mass migration waves, which confirm to be driven primarily by economic incentives. Postwar convergence … of citizenship laws is determined by legal tradition and international migration, but also by border stability, the …

an era of largely free migration. As such, it constitutes a unique policy experiment, in which migration flows reflected … underlying economic forces, rather than government policy. Moreover, since there was large-scale migration between relatively … rich countries with relatively well-developed states, and since the migration was legal, it was extremely well …

important impact on factor prices in some countries, just as Heckscher and Ohlin would have predicted. Migration was a more …