migrants. This paper explores the issue of welfare migration across the 15 countries of the pre-enlargement Union and finds a … significant but small effect of the generosity of welfare on migration decisions. This effect, however, is still large enough to … distort the distribution of migration flows and, possibly, offset the potential benefits of migration as an inflow of mobile …

We develop a model of the interdependencies between migration, remittances and inequality, and investigate how … migration and subsequent remittances affect inter-household inequality in the origin communities. An important feature of our … model is that we take into account the impact of migration on the local (rural) labor market. Migration is shown to decrease …

International migration of people is a momentous and complex phenomenon. Research on its causes and consequences …, requires sufficient data. While some datasets are available, the nature of migration complicates their scientific use …. Virtually no existing dataset captures international migration trajectories. To alleviate these difficulties, we suggest: (i …

of interregional migration in Great Britain. By exploiting retrospective information on residency we control for late …

This paper examines whether family and community migration experience affect the probability of high school graduation … across migration and education decisions as well as within groups of individuals such as the family are explicitly controlled …

, suggesting that study abroad spells are an important channel to later migration. We investigate heterogeneity in returns and find …

European migration policies are characterised by a fundamental paradox: they are getting tighter and tighter just while …, based on a computable general equilibrium model, we evaluate whether migration to "rigid labour markets" a-la European … migration are, at a GDP gain of 0.2-0.3% at a migration of 1% of the labour force, but that natives in the receiving countries …

migrants and natives under both migration and trade. We use a general equilibrium model of migration, human capital and social … natives. Trade and both migration solutions reduce inequality between the populations of the two countries by the same amount …. In addition, trade and migration are not equivalent if social capital is present: the highest welfare is obtained with …