This paper explores the relationship between openness to trade, immigration, and income per person across countries. To … to immigration on long-run income per capita. In contrast, we are unable to establish an effect of trade openness on … predictors of openness to immigration and to trade for each country by using information on bilateral geographical and cultural …

This paper presents new evidence on international trade and worker outcomes. It examines a big world event that … studies the impact of trade on wages and worker training. Wages and training fell for workers employed in sectors where the … intermediate imports. This provides new direct evidence that, in the modern world of global value chains, it is changes in the cost …

Using panel data from the BHPS and its Understanding Society extension, we study life satisfaction (LS) and income over … from lowest to highest LS, though their average income was always higher. In spite of rapid income growth up to 2008 …/09, the less educated showed no rise in LS, while highly educated LS rose after the crash despite declining real income. In …

capital, population, income growth and distribution, and migration trends are endogenous. We derive new insights about the … impact of migration on long-term income growth and distribution, and the net benefits to natives in both destination and …

studies the reverse. Using surveys of lottery winners, we analyze the effects of unearned income on the Big Five personality … traits. After correcting for potential endogeneity problems from prize sizes, we find that unearned income improves traits …