Elsner, Benjamin; Narciso, Gaia; Thijssen, Jacco J. J. - 2013
Diaspora networks provide information to future migrants and influence both their decision to migrate and their success … future migrants. In a decision model with imperfect signalling we show that migrants with access to a better network are more … empirically using data on recent Mexican migrants to the US, and exploit the geographic diffusion of Mexicans since the 1980s as …