Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding … how culture manifests itself in the migration process for three groups of actors: the migrants, those remaining in the … migration as an economic phenomenon; but what about them matters? Properly, we should be looking at the determinants of identity …

destination, and tracks their migration decision three months later. The findings show that potential migrants severely … without prior foreign migration experience also overestimate their earnings potential abroad, and information on earnings … experiment, the study estimates migration elasticities of 0.7 in expected earnings and 0.5 in expected mortality. The experiment …

Measuring the gain in income from migration is complicated by non-random selection of migrants from the general … overcome this problem, providing an experimental measure of the income gains from migration. New Zealand allows a quota of … the authors in these two countries allows experimental estimates of the income gains from migration by comparing the …