Labor markets are increasingly global. Overseas work can enrich households but also split them geographically, with … temporary, partial-household migration to high-wage jobs in Korea. This allows unusually reliable measurement of the reduced …-form effect of these overseas jobs on migrant households. A purpose-built survey allows nonexperimental tests of different …

Measuring the gain in income from migration is complicated by non-random selection of migrants from the general … population, making it difficult to obtain an appropriate comparison group of non-migrants. This paper uses a migrant lottery to … overcome this problem, providing an experimental measure of the income gains from migration. New Zealand allows a quota of …

conditional labor earnings at all points in the distribution. This underestimation appears driven in part by potential migrants … migration pressure, and in disappointment among those who do migrate. Yet there is almost no statistical evidence on how … the migration destination. Their procedure enables them to obtain moments and quantiles of the subjective distribution of …

, especially when it comes to the debate on the effects of immigration on the employment and wages of natives in high …-2000, the results show the following: First, immigration had zero to small positive long-run effect on the average wages of … and immigration relative to non-migrants …

with binding minimum wages for migrant labor. This result implies that labor market imperfections that make international … migrant numbers and wages to gross domestic product shocks in destination countries. They find a large significant elasticity … migration attractive also make migrant flows more sensitive to global business cycles. Difference-in-differences analysis of a …

analysis finds that although greater migration could push down the wages of native workers of advanced countries in the short … run, these wages eventually recover. This pattern would be mostly caused by the beneficial effect of additional labor on … owners could experience lower incomes while wages rise. Globally, the welfare gains of new migrants could be expected to …

trade on on-the-job human capital accumulation remains significant when controlling for GDP, educational attainment, and …

classroom on the academic achievement of natives. In contrast with previous contributions, it exploits rare information on age-at-migration …

positive effect on native wages (0.14 percent). The impact of immigration is highly heterogeneous for natives with different …The impact of immigration on native workers is driven by two countervailing forces: the degree of substitutability … suited for understanding the impact of low-skilled immigration. The instrumental variable estimates imply that the elasticity …

incomes between countries, and unskilled workers' wages in rich and poor countries often differ by a factor of 10 to 1. This … is the basis on which a new global political issue of migration has emerged because income differences between countries … make individual gains from migration large. The key coming issue will be how to deal with this challenge while …