Determinants of International Migration

Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga has examined the determinants of international migration both theoretically and empirically. In terms of theory, in joint work with Hillel Rapoport, he is presenting a proposal for the reform of the Common European Asylum Policy: "Combining Physical and Financial Solidarity in Asylum Policy." The idea is to complement the European Agenda on Migration by adding both a compensation mechanism between member states and a matching algorithm that would assign refugees to their preferred destinations and destinations to their preferred refugees. On the empirical side, in joint work with Ada Ferrer and Albert Saiz, he is studying the consequences of the Spanish immigration boom on residential segregation and native mobility by using very detailed geographical data at the neighborhood level.

Mr Moraga's research focuses on the study of international migration from an economic point of view, analyzing the causes and consequences of migration flows both from a theoretical and empirical perspective as well as investigating the coordination of migration policies between countries. His current work also focuses on the theory of international cooperation in migration policies and the causes and consequences of the Spanish immigration boom. He has presented in numerous academic conferences related to immigration, as a guest speaker in many of them and even as keynote speaker in some of them. His most widely cited publications have appeared at the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Public Economics and the Journal of Development Economics.

Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. He is also a Research Fellow for the Instituto de Análisis Económico (CSIC) as well as an IZA Research Fellow. Previously, he was a researcher also at the IAE (CSIC) between 2007 and 2010, Ramon y Cajal researcher in FEDEA between 2010 and 2014 and assistant professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid between 2014 and 2015. He received his PhD in Economics from Columbia University in 2007.