Abstract: We document that international migrants concentrate more in expensive cities -- the more so, the lower the prices in their origin countries are -- and consume less locally than comparable na
This repository contains data and codes for the project titled "Emigration and Entrepreneurial Drain", shortly summarized as followed: Emigration of young, highly educated individuals may deprive o
Bahar, Dany, Hauptmann, Andreas, Özgüzel, Cem, and Rapoport, Hillel, (2024) “Migration and Knowledge Diffusion: The Effect of Returning Refugees on Export Performance in the Former Yugoslavia.” Review
This paper analyses the link between migration and sizes of countries. It explains why larger countries (in terms of population) have lower shares of migrants in their populations. First, the data is
We study how international migrant income prospects affect long-run development in origin areas. We leverage the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis exchange rate shocks in a shift-share identification strate
