Over the past decades, globalization has led to a huge increase in the migration of workers, as well as students. This … paper develops a simple two-step model that describes the decisions of an individual vis-à-vis education and migration, and … presents a unified model, wherein the two migration decisions are combined into a single, unique model. This paper shows that …

and migration. We examine the specific link between the acquisition of high levels of human capital in the form of … university education in Turkey and migration to Germany. We implement bounds testing procedures to ascertain the long …-run relationships with the variables of interest in a migration model. Although the bounds testing procedure has advantages compared to …

migration, I develop a model of migration, which combines the two migration decisions into a unique model - decisions about … solution. But, when we incorporate "brain waste" and "return migration", then it is optimal to migrate when young. …

This paper deals with the measurement of per capita household consumption expenditures when the household's underlying … during the survey period to construct bounds on expected per capita consumption expenditures. We estimate these bounds using …

We investigate the proposition that illness poses as an obstacle to one’s ability to use migration to hedge the … business cycle. We employ data on migration, regional unemployment rates and health status from ten years of the Panel Study of …

show that adverse agricultural productivity shocks primarily increased male migration to the US with much smaller effects … on female migration. This is consistent with the observation that the bulk of households allocated no women to the … wages during the survey period. In contrast, damage sustained from the 2001 earthquakes exclusively stunted female migration …

sending region using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics on internal migration within the United States. Panel data … is crucial, as it enables us to observe geographic mobility as well as the health of the migrant prior to migration. We …

We use panel data from El Salvador to investigate migration and the intra-household allocation of labor as a strategy … that adverse agricultural productivity shocks increased both male migration to the US and the supply of male agricultural … labor within the household in El Salvador. In contrast, after damage sustained from the 2001 earthquakes, female migration …

Mexico and the US. First, we find no evidence of long-run wage convergence among cohorts characterized by low migration … convergence for workers with high migration propensities. Finally, we find evidence of convergence in the border of Mexico vis …