The process of matching between firms and workers is an important mechanism in determining the distribution of wages … association of firm-worker matches known as positive assortative matching (PAM). Immigration in a local labor market, by … that the increased degree of positive assortative matching is mainly reached by high-productive firms "losing" lower …

We examine both theoretically and empirically how migration affects cultural change in home and host countries. Our … theoretical model integrates various compositional and cultural transmission mechanisms of migration-based cultural change for …, this is mostly to disseminate cultural values and norms from host to home countries (i.e., cultural remittances). …

In this paper, we study how forced migration impacts the in-group and out-group social capital of Syrian refugees and … the migration experience (for refugees) and the refugee crisis (for the host population). Additionally, we study the … social spillovers to Palestinians, an established refugee population in Lebanon. We find that the impact of forced migration …

local skill share and that both skill acquisition and migration play a role. We develop and quantify a spatial equilibrium … migration linkages between cities. Counterfactual experiments suggest that the growth in capital goods imports in China between …

selective out-migration literature, our basic structure assumes that the process that determines out-migration is unrelated to …

countries. We draw on European data from 30 countries, including over 90 countries of birth and control for timing of migration …, selective migration and other controls including citizenship and cultural proxies. Our results show robust evidence of cultural …