This issue of Regional Science and Urban Economics is the special conference issue of the 3rd AFD-World Bank Migration and Development Conference, which took place at the Paris School of Economics on September 10–11, 2010.

This paper discusses how the mechanisms that allocate workers to tasks vary systematically with isolation from markets and hence with distance from urban centers. This in turn affects social norms, household structure, and the perceived benefits of migration. The relevance of the framework is...

This paper discusses how the mechanisms that allocate workers to tasks vary systematically with isolation from markets and hence with distance from urban centers. This in turn affects social norms, household structure, and the perceived benefits of migration. The relevance of the framework is...