ABSTRACT A large literature exploits geographic variation in the concentration of
immigrants to identify their impact on a variety of outcomes. To address the endogeneity of …

The Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship series covers three important aspects of the
migration progress: firstly, the determinants, dynamics and characteristics of international …

Against the background of political turmoil in the Middle-East, Europe faces an
unprecedented surge in asylum applications. In analyzing the economic impact of this …

Sjaastad (1962) viewed migration in the same way as education: as an investment in the
human agent. Migration and education are decisions that are indeed intertwined in many …

This paper analyzes the effect of skilled migration on two measures of innovation, patenting
and bibliometric data, in a panel of 20 European countries between 1995 and 2008. The …

The Handbook of the Economics of Education describes the research frontier in key topical
areas and sets the agenda for further work. Modern analysis in the economics of education …

We provide causal estimates of the effect of immigration on house prices and construction
activity in Spain over the period 2000–2010. During this period Spain experienced …

This paper evaluates the global welfare impact of observed levels of migration using a
quantitative multi-sector model of the world economy calibrated to aggregate and firm-level …

We examine whether and how the inflow of female immigrants who specialize in household
production affects the labour supply of Italian women. To identify the causal effect, we exploit …

The recent refugee surge has brought attention to the macro-critical policy issue of
migration, including speculations that migration can be an unfavorable phenomenon for the …