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 …

Most labor economics textbooks pay little attention to actual labor markets, taking as
reference a perfectly competitive market in which losing a job is not a big deal. The …

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

Immigration is once again a major political issue in the United States. What makes the
current debate distinct from past debates is a focus on illegal migrants. There is a popular …

The migration question seems to be one of the most demanding social issues for Europe at
the turn of the century. Large migration pressures are expected from developing countries …

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 …

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 …

International migration can significantly increase income per capita in Europe. We estimate
that at the given wage and productivity gap between Western and Eastern Europe, migration …

Large international differences in the price of labor can be sustained by differences between
workers or by natural and policy barriers to worker mobility. We use migrant selection theory …

Does migration facilitate regional adjustment to idiosyncratic shocks? The evidence from
post-communist economies indicates that the efficacy of migration in reducing interregional …