level covariates, migration costs, and when testing for stochastic dominance of the skill distributions of migrants and …We analyze the effects of governmental redistribution of income on migration patterns,using an Italian administrative … redistribution receive a negative selection of Italian migrants. This holds true after accounting for many individual and country …

capital and, in particular, language proficiency for socio-economic assimilation. …

This paper studies the effects of local threat on cultural and economic assimilation of refugees, exploiting plausibly … economic assimilation. Our evidence suggests that refugees exert more assimilation effort in response to local threat, but that …

workers and (ii) an increase in the labor market participation rate of migrants. Per assumption, natives and migrants solely … inflow of migrant workers. More interesting, though, it is shown that a larger share of migrants in the workforce increases … (decreases) the employment level, if the union represents (does not represent) migrant workers. -- migration ; welfare state …

proximity has a positive spillover effect on social capital towards other migrants. This implies that, while the refugee crisis …