The Causes and Effects of International Migrations: Evidence from OECD Countries 1980-2005

This paper contains three important contributions to the literature on international migrations. First, it compiles a new dataset on migration flows (and stocks) and on immigration laws for 14 OECD destination countries and 74 sending countries for each year over the period 1980-2005. Second, it本文对国际移民研究文献做出了三项重要贡献。其一，它汇编了一个新数据集，涵盖1980-2005年期间每年14个经济合作与发展组织（OECD）目的地国家和74个来源国的移民流量（及存量）与移民法相关数据。其二，它