Knowing whether corruption leads to higher emigration rates - and among which groups - is important because most labor emigration is from developing to developed countries. If corruption leads highly-skilled and highlyeducated workers to leave developing countries, it can result in a shortage of...

This paper is concerned with the study of the labor market performance of immigrants. The unemployment rate is used as an indicator and natives as the reference group for the analysis. The analysis proceeds in two steps. In a first step, probit regressions on the unemployment probabilities are...

This paper makes two contributions to the literature on the determinants of international migration flows. First, we compile a new dataset on annual bilateral migration flows covering 15 OECD destination countries and 120 sending countries for the period 1980-2006. We also collect data on...

Zwei verwirrende Fakten der internationalen Wanderung sind, dass nur ein kleiner Teil der Bevölkerung der Auswanderungsländer emigriert und dass die Migrationsquoten mit der Zeit kleiner werden. Der Beitrag untersucht dieses Phänomen unter Zuhilfenahme eines Migrationsmodells mit heterogenen...