Impact of migration on economic and social development: A review of evidence and emerging issues

D Ratha, S Mohapatra, E Scheja - World Bank Policy Research …, 2011 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper provides a review of the literature on the development impact of migration and
remittances on origin countries and on destination countries in the South. International …

The impact of weather anomalies on migration in sub-Saharan Africa

L Marchiori, JF Maystadt, I Schumacher - Journal of Environmental …, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper analyzes the effects of weather anomalies on migration in sub-Saharan Africa.
We present a theoretical model that demonstrates how weather anomalies induce rural …

Measuring immigration policies: The IMPIC database

M Helbling, L Bjerre, F Römer, M Zobel - European Political Science, 2017 - Springer
Despite a growing interest in migration questions, it is still not possible to systematically
analyse immigration policies across time and a large number of countries. Most studies in …

Conceptualizing and measuring immigration policies: A comparative perspective

L Bjerre, M Helbling, F Römer… - International Migration …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In the last decade, researchers have developed many innovative ideas for the construction
of indices measuring immigration policies. Methodological considerations have, however …

Crossing the border: Self-selection, earnings and individual migration decisions

S Bertoli, JFH Moraga, F Ortega - Journal of Development Economics, 2013 - Elsevier
We analyze an international migration episode for which we are able to gather individual-
level data covering all relevant countries, namely the exodus of Ecuadorians to Spain and …

Dismantling the “Jungle”: Migrant relocation and extreme voting in France

P Vertier, M Viskanic, M Gamalerio - Political Science Research and …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Large migrant inflows have spurred anti-immigrant sentiment, but can small inflows have a
different impact? We exploit the redistribution of migrants after the dismantling of the “Calais …

Remittances, migrants' education and immigration policy: Theory and evidence from bilateral data

F Docquier, H Rapoport, S Salomone - Regional Science and Urban …, 2012 - Elsevier
We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both
theoretically and empirically, using original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level …

Civic participation of immigrants in Europe: Assimilation, origin, and destination country effects

M Aleksynska - European Journal of Political Economy, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper analyses civic participation of immigrants in Europe. It documents that immigrants
do actively participate in the life of the receiving societies, increasingly so with the duration …

Do energy prices affect employment? Decomposed international evidence

E Hille, P Möbius - Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper analyzes the energy price-employment nexus and contributes to the literature by
showing that it is important to decompose the regulatory effect into demand, cost, and factor …

Immigration and product diversity

F Mazzolari, D Neumark - Journal of Population Economics, 2012 - Springer
We study the effects of immigration on the diversity of consumption choices. Data from
California in the 1990s indicate that immigration is associated with fewer stand-alone retail …