This paper presents a critical survey of theories of migration, their welfare and policy
implications and their empirical relevance. We also develop some extensions to the theory …

We study the role of establishment-specific wage premiums in generating recent increases
in West German wage inequality. Models with additive fixed effects for workers and …

The idea for this book came from the time the authors spent at the Statistics and Applied
Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) in Research Triangle Park in North Carolina …

The concept of nonparametric smoothing is a central idea in statistics that aims to
simultaneously estimate and modes the underlying structure. The book considers high …

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In 1998, the European Union opened negotiations with six Central
and Eastern European countries seeking membership. These countries consisted of the …

Migration in Eastern Europe and Central Asia is relatively large by international standards,
driven both by political factors (the 1990 collapse of the Soviet system, ensuing emergence …

IT IS DIFFICULT TO FIND A MORE dramatic episode of economic dislocation in peacetime
during the twentieth century than that associated with the reunification of Germany. It is a sad …

Per capita income disparities, particularly evident between developed and less developed
countries, are of noticeable importance even amongst the regions of the European Union …

Following the unification of Germany in 1990, eastern wages and unemployment both rose
rapidly. I demonstrate that rising wages reduced eastern emigration greatly, while rising …

While global migration is increasing, internal EU migration flows have only increased slowly.
This paper contributes to a better understanding of the determinants and scale of European …