We analyze self-selection of refugees and irregular migrants and test our theory in the context of the European refugee … crisis. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World Polls, we provide the first … large-scale evidence on reasons to emigrate, and the self-selection and sorting of refugees and irregular migrants. Refugees …

jointly, however, mainly due to the lack of relevant data. This paper addresses this shortcoming by looking at the gender … identify people by country of residence, place of birth, gender and level of education. The evidence summarized in this paper … are now more or less gender-balanced. A more surprising result is that this is also true for the highly skilled. Taking …

around the world have placed greater focus on the varied impacts of migration in recent years. Critical to this line of …

Violent conflict is a well-recognised driver of forced migration but literature does not usually consider the pull … significant economic variable. In addition, we demonstrate that it is episodes of escalating conflict, rather than accumulated … violence, that drives decisions to leave. Out-of-sample predictions indicate that if conflict in origin countries were to cease …

paper estimates simple gravity models of bilateral migration flows for the whole world and projects these models into the …