Abstract
This dissertation consists of four chapters, which I wrote during my Ph.D. studies at CERGE-EI. Being a migrant, I felt that my personal migration experience had something unique to share and this is how the topic of my thesis emerged.
All four chapters analyze labor migration from different perspectives. In the first two chapters I research immigration policy.
In a dynamic world where new technologies rapidly reduce mobility costs, immigration policy becomes an important tool in controlling immigration. In the remaining two chapters I focus on the issues of self-selection into emigration using the example of Ukraine and within-country mobility using the example of the Czech Republic.
These patterns are important because they determine the direction and magnitude of welfare changes initiated by the mobility of labor.