relevant role in shaping migration across sectors. Barriers to migration are lower in sectors in which business interestgroups …

analyzing patterns in public opinion on migration and find that, across countries of different income levels, only a small … minority of voters favor more open migration policies. Next we investigate the determinants of voters' preferences towards … examines how attitudes translate into a migration policy outcome. We consider two alternative political-economy frameworks: the …

In this paper we focus on the changes in internal migration flows triggered by China's 2001 entry into the World Trade … and after 2001. We relate changes in internal migration rates to the reduction in trade policy uncertainty faced by … internal migration. Our results also show that the impact on skilled and unskilled internal migration rates is consistent with …

this paper we analyze the factors that affect a direct measure of individual attitudes towards skilled migration, focusing …

public opinion on migration is affected by the potential labor market competition of migrants towards natives. We investigate … this issue by estimating the impact of survey respondents' individual skill on their pro-migration attitudes. Our estimates …

contributes to a small but growing literature on the impact of South-South migration by looking at one of the most attractive … of natives to other districts as a consequence of migration, as in Borjas (2006) …