We investigate the causal relationship between inventor migration and regional innovation in the context of the large …-scale migration shock from East to West Germany between World War II and the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. Leveraging a … effect is stronger than the one caused by the migration of other high skilled workers and scientists. …

How do climate disasters shape migration? The existing evidence presents conflicting and inconclusive findings. To … address this question, we theorize the cognitive processes guiding migration decisions in the wake of disasters. On the one … hand, the link between climate disasters and migration aspirations may be driven by sudden-onset (e.g. heavy rains, storms …

We analyze the effects of governmental redistribution of income on migration patterns,using an Italian administrative … level covariates, migration costs, and when testing for stochastic dominance of the skill distributions of migrants and … stayers. Policy simulations are run in order to gauge the magnitude of these migration effects. Based on estimated …