reduction in persecution. Yet a large literature suggests that migration can be a very stressful process, with potentially … negative impacts on mental health reducing the net benefits of migration. However, to truly understand the effect of migration … between these groups. This paper overcomes the selection problems affecting previous studies of the effect of migration on …

Measuring the gain in income from migration is complicated by non-random selection of migrants from the general … overcome this problem, providing an experimental measure of the income gains from migration. New Zealand allows a quota of … conducted by the authors in these two countries allows experimental estimates of the income gains from migration to be obtained …

transition; (i) environmental conditions, (ii) population pressure,(iii) cultural influence, and (iv) external factors. It is …

years of transition from a planned to a market economy. The results suggest that the communist institutions did succeed in …

The economies of the former Soviet Bloc experienced large declines in output during the decade of transition which … deflators provide a poor proxy for the change in real living standards in transition economies. This paper uses the Engel curve … the transition period and to provide an estimate of how much the officialRussian CPI has overstated consumer inflation. We …