After irregular migration to Europe shot upward in 2015, development assistance agencies
acquired a renewed mandate: to deter migration from poor countries.“To address the root …

International migration is an important channel of material improvement for individuals and
their offspring. The movement of people across country borders, especially from less …

The share of US residents who were born in Latin America and the Caribbean plateaued
recently, after a half century of rapid growth. Our review of the evidence on the US …

We use new data on the pre-and postmigration wages of immigrants to the United States to
measure wage gains at migration. The average immigrant from a middle-income or poor …

Migration and pollution are two defining features of China's impressive growth performance
over the last 30 years. In this paper we study the migration response to pollution in Chinese …

Does violence lead to flight from cities in the developing world? This paper estimates the
effect of violent crime in municipalities of Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala on the …

This book, in its second edition, introduces readers to the economics of immigration, which is
a booming field within economics. The main themes and objectives of the book are for …

This book provides a philosophical defence of open borders. Two policy dogmas are the
right of sovereign states to restrict immigration and the infeasibility of opening borders …

The economic causes and effects of migration from developing countries depend on
patterns of self-selection that are difficult to observe. We estimate the degree of migrant self …

Economic arguments against immigration suggest that immigrants undermine the culture,
institutions, and productivity of destination countries. But is that true? Nowrasteh and Powell …