Using the results of a national identity survey, we test the impact of religious affiliation on trade and immigration … restrict imports and immigration. Religiosity, in contrast, has a separate effect of moderating attitudes towards immigration …

exogenous shock to Israel's immigrant flows because Israel allows unrestricted immigration for world-wide Jews. Israel …'s population increased by 20 percent in the 1990s due to immigration from the former Soviet Union. These immigrants did not bring …

This paper examines the role of human capital persistence in explaining long-term development. We exploit variation …

professional development for its residents. Through an empiric research, we have identified the most important factors which …

wide range of benefits that international migration brings to global development. Main aim of the paper is to provide an … institutional development and finds that the impact is particularly strong for emigrant-sending countries with medium institutional …